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Borges, Jorge Luis - hôrˈhā looēsˈ bôrˈhās, 1899–1986, Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, b. Buenos Aires. Borges has been widely hailed as the foremost contemporary Spanish-American writer. He was educated in Switzerland and afterward lived in Spain, where he became an exponent of ultraísmo, a poetic movement that followed the decline of modernismo after World War I. Ultraísmo advocated the use of bold images and daring metaphors in an attempt to create pure poetry, divorced not only from the past but from reality. Borges, who brought the movement to Argentina, never adhered strictly to its tenets. He helped to found three avant-garde journals and was director of the National Library and professor of English at the Univ. of Buenos Aires.

His poems, collected in Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), Luna de enfrente (1925), Cuaderno San Martín (1954), Dreamtigers (tr. 1964), A Personal Anthology (tr. 1967), Selected Poems: 1923–1967 (1972), and In Praise of Darkness (tr. 1974), are often inspired by events of daily life or episodes of Argentine history. Characterized by lyricism, imagination, and boldness, they are, he said, "spiritual adventures." His essays, collected in Inquisiciones (1925), Otras inquisiciones (1960, tr. 1964), and the translations in Selected Nonfictions (1999) generally deal with philosophy and literary criticism. His tales, ranging from metaphysical allegories and fantasies (e.g., The Book of Imaginary Beings, 1967; tr. 1969) to sophisticated detective yarns, reveal a wide variety of influences (Kafka, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf) but are nevertheless strikingly original. Major collections of his short stories include Historia universal de la infamia (1935, tr. 1972), Ficciones (1944, tr. 1962), El Aleph (1949, tr. 1970), Extraordinary Tales (1955, tr. 1971), and Dr. Brodie's Report (tr. 1972). Labyrinths (1962) is a collection of translated works, and Collected Fictions (1998) contains his complete stories in translation.

See biography by J. Woodall (1997); studies by A. M. Barrenechea (tr. 1965), R. J. Christ (1969), C. Wheelock (1969), J. Alazraki (1971), and G. H. Bell-Villada (1981); see also R. Burgin, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1969).

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The Emperor's Kites: A Morphology of Borges' Tales » Read Now
by Mary Lusky Friedman. 220 pgs.

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...Other Stories, 1933-1969 , by Jorge Luis Borges, edited and translated by...Giovanni; copyright 1970 by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy-Casares, and...From Borges: A Reader...
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Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges » Read Now
by Daniel Balderston. 220 pgs.

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...la irrealidad en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges The Expression of Irreality in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges . "Borges," for many readers...The Literary Universe of Jorge...
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Archetype, Architecture, and the Writer (Chap. Seven "Borges: 'The Library of Babel': The Archetypal Hexagonal Gallery") » Read Now
by Bettina L. Knapp. 210 pgs.

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...archetype to allow a hermaphroditic matriarchate to gestate in its most absolutely perverse and sanguinary form. Jorge Luis Borges "The Library of Babel" is a mystical...
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Jorge Luis Borges & the Plural I, in New Criterion » Read Now
by Eric Ormsby. 8 pgs.

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Borges, Postcolonial Precursor, in World Literature Today » Read Now
by Edna Aizenberg. 6 pgs.

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...1989 , p. 115. 7 Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories...Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biography , New...Selection from the Writings of...
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Borges' Early, Conscious Mythicization of Buenos Aires, in Symposium » Read Now
by James E. Holloway Jr. 20 pgs.

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...Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Jorge Luis Borges. A Literary Biogrqphy (New...1979 : 609). 7. Jorge Luis Borges, " Tareas y destino de Buenos...1936 ) 518-519. 8. Jorge Luis...
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Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Essays and Translations ("Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)" begins on p. 189) » Read Now
by Willis Barnstone. 314 pgs.

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...FEDERICO GARCYA LORCA JORGE Luis BORGES MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Essays...Willis Barnstone. The works of Jorge Luis Borges included in this volume originally...Executrix of the...
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Critical Passions: Selected Essays ("The Utopia of a Tired Man: Jorge Luis Borges" begins on p. 327) » Read Now
by Jean Franco, Mary Louise Pratt, Kathleen Newman. 544 pgs.

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Jean Franco's work as a path-breaking theorist, cultural critic, & scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- & Spanish-speaking worlds. Critical Passions is the...
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Jean Franco's work as a path-breaking theorist, cultural critic, & scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- & Spanish-speaking worlds. Critical Passions is the first volume to gather a wide-ranging selection of Franco's influential essays. A key participant in the major debates in Latin American studies-beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s & continuing through debates on ideology & discourse, Marxism, mass culture, & postmodernism-Franco is recognized for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. While her principal books are all readily available, Franco's several dozen articles are dispersed in a variety of periodicals in Latin America, Europe, & the United States. Although many of these essays are considered pioneering & classic, they have never before been collected in a single work. In this volume, Mary Louise Pratt & Kathleen Newman have organized the essays into four interrelated sections: feminism & the critique of authoritarianism, mass & popular culture, Latin American literature from the "boom" onward, & the cultural history of Mexico. As a group, these writings demonstrate Franco's ability to reflect on & judge with equal seriousness all spheres of expression, whether subway graffiti, a fashion manual, or an avant-garde haiku. A bona fide fan of popular & mass media, Franco never allows her critiques to dissolve into the puritanical or reductive; instead, she finds ways to present & debate complex theoretical questions in direct & accessible language. This volume will draw an extensive readership in Latin American, cultural, & women's studies.
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Theoretical Fables: The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (Chap. 2 "Taming the Reader: Jorge Luis Borges") » Read Now
by Alicia Borinsky. 154 pgs.

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...2. Taming the Reader: Jorge Luis Borges 17 3. Intelligence...Maestro ," teacher, was the word Jorge Luis Borges used to refer to Macedonio...book -- Macedonio Fernandez...
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Some Write to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction ("Borges and American Violence" begins on p. 25) » Read Now
by Ariel Dorfman, George Shivers. 260 pgs.

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...reaction of critics to the work of Jorge Luis Borges is like that of members of an...themselves to be mesmerized by Borgess masterful gamesmanship, by his...readers appear...
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Postmodernist Fiction (Discussion of Jorge Luis Borges begins on p. 103) » Read Now
by Brian McHale. 272 pgs.

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In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertake to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompassed forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New novel, concrete prose and science fiction.
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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community (Discussion of Jorge Luis Borges begins on p. 145) » Read Now
by Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris. 592 pgs.

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Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another ("Jorge Luis Borges on Nathaniel Hawthorne" begins on p. 66) » Read Now
by Ilan Stavans. 344 pgs.

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It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/ South divide have had little interest in the work of...
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It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/ South divide have had little interest in the work of their counterparts. With Mutual Impressions Ilan Stavans dispels these notions by showing how solid the bridges between writers and across borders have been -- at least since the early days of this century -- and how crucial they are likely to become as we enter the next millennium.
Divided into symmetrical halves -- South reading North and North reading South -- the book presents essays by leading novelists, poets, and other writers that focus on the work of another literary figure from across the divide. Borges, for example, finds in Hawthorne the perfect precursor to his own interest in allegories; Katherine Anne Porter examines Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi as a rascal whose picaresque views of life in The Itching Parrot served to launch the Latin American novel; Cortazar's study of the plots and style of Poe show an affinity that left an indelible mark on the Argentine's short fiction; Susan Sontag views Machado de Assis as the ultimate mirror, a proto-postmodernist.
With other essays by Thomas Pynchon, William H. Gass, John Updike, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, John Barth, Robert Coover, Pedro Henriquez Urena, Grace Paley, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Mark Strand, among others, Mutual Impressions offers a remarkable view of the connections that comprise a literary tradition of the Americas. It is a book that will surprise and enliven its readers as it informs and awakensin them a sense of wonder.
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Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (Discussion of Jorge Luis Borges begins on p. 132) » Read Now
by Maria Rosa Menocal. 223 pgs.

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Borges, De Quincey and the Interpretation of Words, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Cynthia Stephens. 7 pgs.

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...CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND 1. Jorge Luis Borges, Obras completas en colaboracion...p. 833. 2. Jorge Luis Borges, Obras completas (Buenos...p. 154. 5. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones ...
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Telling of the Tale, in The Atlantic Monthly » Read Now
by Jorge Luis Borges. 4 pgs.

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