Tangó

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Binding method: hardcover, with protective cover
Publication: 2019
Publisher: Jelenkor Publishing
Page number: 160
Translator: András Ádám Kürthy
"It is not a useless thing to study the tango, because through it we study the various vicissitudes of the Argentine soul," writes Borges. And indeed, in the pages of this volume, a lost city, Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century, is revealed to us, and it becomes clear how a looked-down, despised dance of almost underworld origin could become an international fashion, and how it became the trademark of an entire country.