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Jorge Luis Borges in Context

Robin Fiddian
Jorge Luis Borges in Context Book PDF

Author : Robin Fiddian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108470440

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Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin Fiddian Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

Jorge Luis Borges in Context

Robin W. Fiddian
Jorge Luis Borges in Context Book PDF

Author : Robin W. Fiddian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 1108635989

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Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin W. Fiddian Pdf

Situates the works of Borges within the contexts of family and culture, Argentine and world history, and reception and afterlife.

Out of Context

Daniel Balderston
Out of Context Book PDF

Author : Daniel Balderston
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0822313162

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Out of Context by Daniel Balderston Pdf

By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved and least understood works, this study gives us a new sense of Borges' place within the context of contemporary literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

Edwin Williamson
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges Book PDF

Author : Edwin Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107728820

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The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.

A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

Steven Boldy
A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges Book PDF

Author : Steven Boldy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662667

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A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Steven Boldy Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges whether they approach him in English or Spanish, within or outside a university context. It takes his stories and essays of the forties and fifties, especially Ficciones and El Aleph, to be his most significant works, and organizes its material in consequence. About two thirds of the book analyzes the stories of this period text by text. The early sections map Borges's intellectual trajectory up to the fifties in some detail, and up to his death more briefly. They aim to provide an account of the context which will allow the reader maximum access to the meaning and significance of his work and present a biographical narrative developed against the Argentine literary world in which Borges was a key player, the Argentine intellectual tradition in its historical context, and the Argentine and world politics to which his works respond in more or less obvious ways. STEVEN BOLDY is Reader in Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Borges and Kafka

Sarah Roger,Sarah Rachelle Roger
Borges and Kafka Book PDF

Author : Sarah Roger,Sarah Rachelle Roger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198746157

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Borges and Kafka by Sarah Roger,Sarah Rachelle Roger Pdf

Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, Jorge Guillermo Borges (Borges pere, a failed author). Borges believed that much of Kafka's writing derived from his personal experiences, particularly his relationship with his father. This book looks at how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father, and it offers a thorough analysis of Borges pere's writing, which is supplemented by an appendix that reprints Borges pere's poetry for the first time. Borges and Kafka also provides extensive analysis of Kafka's presence in Borges's critical writing, his translations, and the stories that he modelled on Kafka. Particular attention is paid to the concepts that Borges identified as Kafka's obsessions: subordination, infinity, and hierarchical relationships, which Borges referred to as the "patria potestad." Roger's analysis is accompanied by an annotated bibliography documenting every mention of Kafka in Borges's writing and a list of every Kafka text Borges read. Kafka's influence is especially evident in the stories where Borges was openly imitating Kafka--"La loteria en Babilonia" (1941), "La biblioteca de Babel" (1941), and "El Congreso" (1971)--but it features throughout Ficciones. Reading Borges's writing in light of his interest in Kafka demonstrates his focus not just on the individual's subordinate place in an infinite hierarchy but also on the repercussions these circumstances had for a struggling author like Borges, who was seeking to define himself through his writing.

Out of Context

Daniel Balderston
Out of Context Book PDF

Author : Daniel Balderston
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822383024

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Out of Context by Daniel Balderston Pdf

In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's purported "irreality." By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved and least understood works, this study also gives us a new sense of Borges's place within the context of contemporary literature. Through a detailed examination of seven stories, Daniel Balderston shows how Borges's historical and political references, so often misread as part of a literary game, actually open up a much more complex reality than the one made explicit to the reader. Working in tension with the fantastic aspects of Borges' work, these precise references to realities outside the text illuminate relations between literature and history as well as the author's particular understanding of both. In Borges's perspective as it is revealed here, history emerges as an "other" only partially recoverable in narrative form. From what can be recovered, Balderston is able to clarify Borges's position on historical episodes and trends such as colonialism, the Peronist movement, "Western culture," militarism, and the Spanish invasion of the Americas. Informed by a wide reading of history, a sympathetic use of critical theory, and a deep understanding of Borges's work, this iconoclastic study provides a radical new approach to one of the most celebrated and—until now—hermetic authors of our time.

The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

Mariana Casale O’Ryan
The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon Book PDF

Author : Mariana Casale O’Ryan
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 9781781880777

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The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon by Mariana Casale O’Ryan Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges is, undeniably, Argentina's best-known and most influential writer. In addition to scholarly studies of his work, his emblematic figure continues to appear on book covers and carrier bags, in biographies, plaques and statues, photographs and interviews, as well as cartoons and city tours. The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon argues that the ideas and expectations that Argentine people have placed upon the author - thus constructing the icon - are also those that allow them to define their cultural identity. The book examines these intertwined processes by analysing the image of Borges in biographies, photographs, comic strips and urban spaces and the socio-political, historical and cultural contexts in which they were produced. The study seeks not to reveal a Borgesian essence but, rather, to expose the complexity of the ongoing mechanisms which construct Borges the icon. Despite the vast amount of biographical and critical work about the writer that has been produced in Argentina and abroad, The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the construction of the author as an Argentine cultural icon.

Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors, Or, Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism

Malcolm Kevin Read
Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors Or Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism Book PDF

Author : Malcolm Kevin Read
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029966218

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Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors, Or, Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism by Malcolm Kevin Read Pdf

Read locates both the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Western ideas on language in their historical context. He reviews the theoretically diverse critical approaches to Borges's work, including both those that collude with the texts and others that are hostile to the Argentinian writer, and argues that all are inadequate for understanding Borges. He maintains that the modern subject is now characterized by narcissism associated with philosophical skepticism.

Norah Borges

Eamon McCarthy
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Author : Eamon McCarthy
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786836311

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Norah Borges by Eamon McCarthy Pdf

Norah Borges (1901–98) was the sister of the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She first began producing art in Switzerland, where her family was trapped during the First World War, and travelled to Spain before returning to her native Argentina with her new styles of painting. In the 1920s, her work was published on the covers of important cultural magazines, but she is now largely forgotten. In her works, Borges created a world full of almost angelic figures – describing it as a smaller, more perfect world – mostly a serene space dominated by women. This book explores how Borges created that space and developed her own unique style of painting, studying the connections she made with the leading artists and writers of her time.

Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Fictions Book PDF

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140286809

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths Book PDF

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 0141184841

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His is the literature of eternity'Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'James Woodall, Guardian 'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize'Economist

Borges, Between History and Eternity

Hernan Diaz
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Author : Hernan Diaz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441197795

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Borges, Between History and Eternity by Hernan Diaz Pdf

Considers the intersection of aesthetics, politics and metaphysics in Borges's texts, and analyzes their interaction with the North American canon.

Borges and Translation

Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Borges and Translation Book PDF

Author : Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0838755925

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Borges and Translation by Sergio Gabriel Waisman Pdf

This book studies how Borges constructs a theory of translation that plays a fundamental role in the development of Argentine literature, and which, in turn, expands the potential for writers in Latin America to create new and innovative literatures through processes of re-reading, rewriting, and mis-translation. The book analyzes Borges's texts in both an Argentine and a transnational context, thus incorporating Borges's ideas into contemporary debates about translation and its relationship to language and aesthetics, Latin American culture and identity, tradition and originality, and center-periphery dichotomies. Furthermore, a central objective of this book is to show that the study of the importance of translation in Borges and of the importance of Borges for translation studies need not be separated. Furthermore, translation studies has much to gain by the inclusion of Latin American thinkers such as Borges, while literary studies has much to gain by in-depth considerations of the role of translation in Latin American literatures. Sergio Waisman is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at The George Washington University.

Borges's Poe

Emron Esplin
Borges s Poe Book PDF

Author : Emron Esplin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820349053

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Borges's Poe by Emron Esplin Pdf

Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.