Borges, between history and eternity

Borges, between history and eternity

by Díaz, Hernán

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"That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures. On the other hand, in the rest of the world, most readers (and dictionaries) tend to identify the adjective Borgesian with intricate metaphysical puzzles and labyrinthine speculations of universa…

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  • Full title :Borges, between history and eternity / Hernán Díaz.

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"That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures. On the other hand, in the rest of the world, most readers (and dictionaries) tend to identify the adjective Borgesian with intricate metaphysical puzzles and labyrinthine speculations of universal reach, completely detached from particular traditions. One reading is context-saturated, while the other is context-deprived. Oddly enough, these institutional and transcendental approaches have not been pitched against each other in a critical way. Borges, between History and Eternity brings these perspectives together by considering key aspects of Borges's work--the reciprocal determinations of politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a literature of the Americas."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Continuum
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781441169099, 1441169091, 9781283891233, 1283891239, 9781472543004, 1472543009, 9781441152923, 144115292X
  • oclc:ocn819339287
  • LC Classification:PQ7797.B635
  • Dewey Decimal:868

Table of Contents

God and country -- When fiction lives in fiction -- Edgar Allan Poe (on murder considered as metaphysics) -- Walt Whitman, an American, a kosmos.

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Subjects

Borges, Jorge Luis Criticism, interpretation, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- European

Writers

Díaz, Hernán

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