Jorge Luis Borges in context /
Jose Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked, from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two World Wars, to events including the Cuban Revolu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Jose Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked, from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two World Wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship and the Falklands War. Borges's distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka and the European avantgarde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges's polemical stance on Catholic Intelgralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, while chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. Coetzee representing the global South. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 285 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108470445 1108470440 |