Avelino Arredondo

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Avelino Arredondo is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that fictionalizes the life of the historical Uruguayan assassin who killed President Juan Idiarte Borda.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
short story
author Jorge Luis Borges
basedOn Avelino Arredondo (historical assassin)
countryOfOrigin Argentina
depicts killing of President Juan Idiarte Borda
fictionalizes life of the historical Uruguayan assassin Avelino Arredondo
genre fantastic literature
historical fiction
short fiction
hasHistoricalFigure Avelino Arredondo (Uruguayan assassin)
Juan Idiarte Borda
language Spanish
literaryMovement Borgesian fiction
Latin American literature
literaryStyle concise prose
interweaving of fact and fiction
mainCharacter Avelino Arredondo
narrativePerspective third-person narration
partOf Borges’s body of short stories
settingLocation Montevideo
Uruguay
subject assassination of Juan Idiarte Borda
theme assassination
fate
history and fiction
identity
individual versus politics
political violence
workOf Jorge Luis Borges

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El libro de arena hasPart Avelino Arredondo
Avelino Arredondo mainCharacter Avelino Arredondo