Borges, the Jew

by Stavans, Ilan

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Title Statements

Full title :Borges, the Jew / Ilan Stavans.

Summary

In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture. Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and stories dealing with various aspects of Jewish history and culture from the Holocaust to Kabbalah and from Franz Kafka to the creation of the State of Israel. In periods when anti-Semitism in Argentina was on the rise, Borges was clear in his refutation of such xenophobia, and when Jewish writers were hardly available in Spanish, he was among the first to translate them. Throughout Stavans s discussion of these topics he weaves in personal anecdotes on reading Borges for the first time, hearing him read in Mexico, and looking for him in Buenos Aires. No fan of Borges s classic oeuvre will ever see his legacy in the same way after reading this book."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York Press
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 144 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438461434, 1438461437
oclc:ocn928136637
LC Classification:PQ7797.B635
Dewey Decimal:868/.6209

Preface: Outsider -- Yo, Judío -- A short catalog of Jewish symbols -- Deutches requiem -- Beyond translation -- On the language of ghosts -- Coda: Borges y yo.

Subjects

Antisemitism -- Argentina Borges, Jorge Luis Criticism, interpretation, etc Jews in literature Judaism -- Influence Judaism and literature Judaïsme et littérature Judentum Juifs dans la littérature