Bustos Domecq was the original credited author of the parodic detective stories in Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, 1942 (translated 1981 as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi) and Dos fantasías memorables, 1946 ( Two memorable fancies).īustos was also the alleged author of Crónicas de Bustos Domecq, 1967, (translated by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni as Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1976)), and Nuevos Cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977), even though the authors' actual names were featured on the covers of both books. Jacket of Norman Thomas Di Giovanni's English translation of Crónicas de Bustos Domecq (Dutton edition, 1979, ISBN 8-6). According to Borges, Bustos was the name of one of his great-grandfathers, while Domecq was the name of one of Bioy's great-grandfathers. Bustos Domecq' for some of their lighter works. He changed his first initial and acquired a second surname (which in Argentina connotes either 'old money' or simply, as in the rest of Latin America, a maternal last name) as Borges and Bioy Casares later used the pseudonym 'H. (Francisco) Bustos, the pseudonym under which Borges, in 1933, published his first fictional story, now known as 'Hombre de la esquina rosada', ('Man from the Pink Corner') but originally titled 'Hombre de las orillas' ('Man from the Slums' or more literally 'Man from the Outskirts'), Francisco Bustos being the name of 'one forefather's forefather'.

Bustos Domecq (Honorio Bustos Domecq) is a pseudonym used for several collaborative works by the Argentine writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.īustos Domecq made his first appearance as F. In the first story, Parodi, who is himself in jail for homicide, is visited by a young man who seeks his help in solving a particularly baffling murder.H. 'Bugsy's' prose style is not quite the style of either of the collaborators, but in this volume, at least, 'he never got out of hand,' as Borges complained he did later. The first fruit of the collaboration of Borges and his long-time friend Bioy-Casares, Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi appeared originally under the pseudonym of H. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. “***********PLEASE CLICK ON THE DESCRIPTION IF YOU ARE ON YOUR PHONE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS AND READ THE DESCRIPTION****************Hardcover.

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