In your support there is, of course, the artifact, published in October 1940, by Editorial Sudamericana, entitled Las palmeras salvajes, with a notation on the title page that reads: вЂњTraducciГі n de Jorge Luis Borges.вЂќ There is also the vaguely disquieting recollection in his вЂњAutobiographical EssayвЂќ of 1970 that some time between 19 (the nine-year span is too broad to offer us much comfort), while on holidays from his work as municipal librarian, he вЂњtranslated Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.вЂќ And there is his comment to Norman Thomas di Giovanni, in Borges on Writing: вЂњ I remember when I translated FaulknerвЂ™s Wild Palms, that people told me the sentences were far too involved, and I was blamed forВ that.вЂќДЄgainst your belief there is, sadly, this distressing information about BorgesвЂ™ mother, in the вЂњAutobiographical EssayвЂќ: вЂњShe translated some of HawthorneвЂ™s stories, one of Herbert ReadвЂ™s books on art, and she also produced some of the translations of Melville, Virginia Woolf, and Faulkner that are consideredВ mine.вЂќ This essay is for those of you who choose to believe that Jorge Luis Borges actually translated, in 1939, a novel of William FaulknerвЂ™s called The Wild Palms.

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