| Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation Contributor(s): Block De Behar, Lisa (Author), Egginton, William (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0791455556 ISBN-13: 9780791455555 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 868.620 |
| LCCN: 2002017575 |
| Series: Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.15" W x 9" (0.93 lbs) 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |