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Zusatztext Roger's examination of Borges's three overtly Kafkian stories is generally insightful and adds important knowledge to our understanding of these stories. The study of the eight stories in chapter five, however, contains, at times, a sense of one reaching for Kafka Overall, Borges and Kafka provides the reader with interesting insights into the Borges-Kafka relationship and offers a welcome addition to our knowledge on Borges père which, in turn, creates the potential for new avenues of research in the future. Informationen zum Autor Sarah Roger is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, where she is studying the works of the Argentine-Canadian writer and critic Alberto Manguel. Formerly, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. She has a DPhil in Latin American literature and an MPhil in European Literature, both from the University of Oxford. Klappentext Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, a failed author. She explores how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father. Zusammenfassung Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, a failed author. She explores how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on Editions, Translations, and Titles 1: Biographical Predecessors and Literary Precursors 2: Borges père and Borges fils 3: Reading, Translating, and Writing about Kafka 4: Emulating Kafka in Babylon and Babel 5: Kafkian Fictions 6: The Congress of the World 7: Writing about Kafka, Writing about Writing Annotated Bibliography: Works by Borges that Mention Kafka Appendix I: Works by Kafka that Borges Read Appendix II: Jorge Guillermo Borges's Poetry Bibliography Index ...
