Borges, Between History and Eternity by Hernan Diaz, ISBN-13: 978-1441197795
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- Publisher: Continuum; 1st edition (August 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441197796
- ISBN-13: 978-1441197795
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.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
South, North, Beyond
I. POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Introduction
1. God and Country
2. When Fiction Lives in Fiction
II. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Introduction
1. Edgar Allan Poe (On Murder Considered as Metaphysics)
2. Walt Whitman, an American, a Kosmos
Afterword
Note on the Translations
Abbreviation of Borges’s Titles
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
Hernan Diaz is Managing Editor of Revista Hispánica Moderna and Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University, USA. Formerly he has been a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the State University of New York (Albany), USA.
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