Hombre de la esquina rosada

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Hombre de la esquina rosada is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that blends elements of Argentine gaucho culture, knife-fighting, and ironic narrative twists within a Buenos Aires underworld setting.

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instanceOf literary work
short story
author Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Argentina NERFINISHED
culturalContext Argentine knife-fighting codes
early 20th-century Buenos Aires
featuresElement compadrito culture
duel
gaucho culture
ironic twist ending
knife-fighting
genre crime fiction
gaucho literature
short story
urban fiction
hasCharacterType compadrito
knife-fighter
local tough
hasConflictType honor duel
man versus man
hasEnglishTitle Man on Pink Corner NERFINISHED
The Man from the Pink Corner NERFINISHED
hasNarrativeDevice frame narrative
unreliable narrator
hasPublicationForm magazine publication
short story collection
hasReception considered a classic of Borges’s early fiction
frequently anthologized in Borges collections
hasStyle colloquial language
ironic tone
oral storytelling style
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Hombre de la esquina rosada NERFINISHED
influencedBy Argentine tango culture
Buenos Aires suburbs (arrabales) NERFINISHED
gauchesque tradition
literaryMovement Argentine literature
Latin American literature
narrativePerspective first-person narrator
originalLanguage Spanish
partOf Jorge Luis Borges short fiction corpus
settingLocation Argentine underworld
Buenos Aires NERFINISHED
theme cowardice and bravery
honor
masculinity
myth-making
unreliable narration
violence

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