Borges' Short Stories - A Reader's Guide

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges'' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide offers an analysis of such key terms in Borges'' work as "labyrinth" and the "infinite" and analyzes Borges'' particular narrative strategies. This guide also sets Borges'' work within its wider literary, cultural and intellectual contexts and provides an annotated guide to both scholarly and popular responses to his work to assist further reading.>

Product details

• Authors: Rex Butler
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2010
• EAN: 9780826442987
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-4298-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Reader's Guides; Reader's Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Latin-American Spanish, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form