Borges and the Politics of Form (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Jose Eduardo Gonzalez

ISBN 10: 0815328036 / ISBN 13: 9780815328032

Published by Routledge 1998-12-11, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Borges and the Politics of Form (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
• Publisher: Routledge 1998-12-11
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815328036
• ISBN 13: 9780815328032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the real, and provides a detailed analysis of the various political issues that Borges takes up in his essays and short stories. The author places particular emphasis on the turbulent questions that shaped Argentine social history during the period of Borges' output.

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Jose Eduardo Gonzalez (Author)