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, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University, is the author of numerous books of criticism, including At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, and a novel, Certificate of Absence. Oscar Montero is Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Summary

Regarded by many as one of the best critical books on Borges.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Irwin, Molloy, Sylvia Molloy, Sylvia Molloy
• Assisted by: Oscar Montero (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.1993
• EAN: 9780822314202
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1420-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Latin America in Translation; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Latin America in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Spanisch, Südamerika, Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko)