Borrowed Lives

Borrowed Lives is a novel. It is an enactment of issues of literary philosophy and criticism, including the question of whether there can be originality, coherence, and authenticity in life and art. It deepens William Blake's point -- Make your own myth or else be enslaved by another man's -- by asking whether one's own myth isn't also another man's myth and by portraying the terrible consequences of taking one's own myth literally.

About the author

Stanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has written The Fate of the Self and Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form. He is also the editor and translator of Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Irene Giersing, a former professor of French literature, owns The Strand, an Art Deco restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Corngold, Irene Giersing
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1991
• EAN: 9780791406717
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0671-7
• No. of pages: 189
• Series: Suny Series, Frontiers in Educ; Suny Series, Frontiers in Educ; Suny Series, the Margins of Li
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature