Borges' Esoteric Library. Metaphysics to Metafiction

Didier Jaén

ISBN 10: 0819184446 / ISBN 13: 9780819184443

Published by University Press Of America, 1992

About this Item

Lanham, University Press of America, 1992. 14 x 22 cm, 230 pp. Covers are in fine condition. Intro + preface, the whole of Part I (up to page 41) and chapter 7 ( The Loss of Words , pp. 137-152) have been extensively underlined and annotated in pencil. All other sections are clean. The Book Cellar & Henschel.

Seller Inventory # LC1359

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Borges' Esoteric Library. Metaphysics to Metafiction
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819184446
• ISBN 13: 9780819184443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Borges

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Synopsis

Borges' use of allusion to esoteric and metaphysical doctrines is foundation for his renovation to fiction toward metafiction. Contents: Borges and the Esoteric Tradition; The Esoteric; The Fantastic, and Borges' Metafiction; Borges' Art: Metaphysics as Metafiction; The Loss of the Self; The Loss of Reality; The Loss of Time; The Loss of Words; The Loss of Salvation; "Tion, Upbar, Orbis Tertius" and The Esoteric Tradition; in Place of Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Didier T. Jaen is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Davis.