11
In March 1934 «A Cartomante» was published without translator credits in number 31 of the Revista Multicolor de los Sábados, a supplement of the newspaper Crítica directed by Borges and another modernist writer, Ulises Petit de Murat. The story was illustrated by Andrés Guevara (who would later be the graphic designer for several carioca newspapers, including Dom Casmurro). For further reading on Revista Multicolor, see Sylvia Saítta, «Futurism, Fascism and Mass-Media: The Case of Marinetti's 1926 Trip to Buenos Aires» Stanford Humanities Review. Movements of the Avant-Garde, Volume 7.1, Summer 1999, p. 31-47.
12
Borges, Jorge Luis. A Universal History of Infamy. Trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni. New York: Dutton, 1972.
13
Mendes, Murilo «A cartomante» in Revista Nova, a.1, nº. 4, Dec. 15, 1931, p. 526-7.
14
In his Seminar XI, Lacan says that no praxis, more than analysis, is oriented toward that which, at the heart of experience, is the nucleus of reality. This is so, Lacan goes on to explain because what is at stake in psichoanalysis is the encounter with a real that constantly eludes us. It is in this context that Lacan offers us the Aristotelian logic of tuché (which he translates as the encounter with the real) to refer to something that is beyond the automaton, that is, the simple return. For Lacan then, there is always something that occurs as if by chance; he stipulates: «the function of the tuché, of the real as an encounter -the encounter in so far as it is essentially the missed encounter- first presented itself in the psycho-analysis in a form that was in itself already enough to arouse or attention, that of the trauma», or, in that form that can not be assimilated. Cf. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Translation, Alan Sheridan. New York, W. W. Norton, 1998, p. 55.
15
Mendes, Murilo, op. cit.
16
Lispector, Clarice - A hora da estrela. Rio de Janeiro, Rocco, 1998, p. 72. (The hour of the Star. Tr. into English by Giovanni Pontiero. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986).
17
Gasché, Rodolphe - The Tain of the Mirror. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986, p. 177-255.
18
«Tutameia: insignificance, bead of sweat, inanition, nonentity, trifle, emptiness, meaninglessness, almost nothing; mea omnia» Cf. Rosa, J. Guimarães - Tutameia. 5ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1979, p. 166.
19
Mendes, Murilo - «Ossos de borboleta» in Poliedro, Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1972, p. 50
20
Cf. Antelo, Raul - Objecto textual. São Paulo: Memorial da América Latina, 1997.