| Borges, Second Edition: The Passion of an Endless Quotation Revised Edition Contributor(s): Block De Behar, Lisa (Author), Egginton, William (Translator), Rayalexander, Christopher (With) |
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ISBN: 1438450303 ISBN-13: 9781438450308 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 868.620 |
| Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 7.47" W x 8.83" (0.84 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| 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. 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. |