Reading Borges After Benjamin - Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History
Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.
“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.” These words, inseparably marrying Jorge Luis Borges's life and work, encapsulate how he interwove the two throughout his legendary career. But the Borges of popular imagination is the blind, lauded librarian and man of letters; few biographers have explored his tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires, a young man searching for his path in the world.
Added by: sorrow5haven | Karma: 4.05 | Fiction literature | 26 July 2011
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J.L. Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969BY J.L. Borges -
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay.
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters.
He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him. (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books)
He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place. (John Updike)