Signs of Borges

"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."--Doris Sommer, Amherst College

List of contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1. Shadow Plays 5

2. Textual Rubrications 26

3. Fragments and Greeks 40

4. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 58

5. Converting the Simulacrum 77

6. Pleasure and Perplexity 95

7. The Buried Foundation 112

Abbreviations 131

Notes 133

Index 139

About the author

Sylvia Molloy

Product details

• Authors: Molloy, Sylvia Molloy, Sylvia Molloy
• Assisted by: Oscar Montero (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.1993
• EAN: 9780822314066
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1406-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Latin America in Translation; Crm Proceedings & Lecture Note; Latin America in Translation; Crm Proceedings & Lecture Note
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies