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This paper concentrates on the attraction to the suburb and its most representative characters --like the "compadrito"- present in Jorge Luis Borges' works. Firstly, we analyze the presence of the "barrio" as central theme in post modernist poetry by Enrique Banchs, Evaristo Carriego and Baldomero Fernández Moreno, who incorporate the suburban world into Argentine poetry. Then, we focus on an original hypothesis which goes into the affective reasons which might have moved the polyglot, erudite and cosmopolitan writer to feel fascinated by the world of "arrabal" and Buenos Aires' tango. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]