The Asocial Network

Argentine Noir, Borges, and the Labyrinth without a Centre

CHRISTOPH HUBER

“I am going to kill a man. I don’t know his name and I don’t know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him…”—opening paragraph of Nicolas Blake’s The Beast Must Die (1938) “To enter a moviehouse on Lavalle Street and find myself (not without surprise) on the Gulf of Bengal or on Wabash Avenue seems preferable to entering the same moviehouse and finding myself (not without surprise) in Lavalle Street.” Referring to the Buenos Aires street traditionally associated with moviegoing, Jorge Luis Borges felt compelled to open his positive review in the literary magazine Sur of the recent Argentine film La fuga (1937) with this “confession,” lest someone accuse him of blind patriotism. Three months earlier,…

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Cinema Scope (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 93 - Winter 2023

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