The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. This volume brings together essays by the great Argentine literary critic Saúl Sosnowski, one of the greatest experts on the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, providing a cartography of Spanish-American literature.