Borges, Second Edition: The Passion of an Endless Quotation (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) - Softcover

De Behar, Lisa Block

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9781438450308: Borges, Second Edition: The Passion of an Endless Quotation (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

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ISBN 10: 1438450303 ISBN 13: 9781438450308

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2015

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Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.

Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life’s work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness―through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences―of a certain index of universality. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and three entirely new chapters, as well as updated images and corrections to the original translation.

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Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life's work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness-through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences-of a certain index of universality.

About the Author:

Lisa Block de Behar is Professor of Communications at the Universidad de la Rep�blica in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a renowned Jorge Luis Borges scholar.

William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Religious Moderation.

Christopher RayAlexander is a graduate student and language instructor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University.

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