Borges, the Jew (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
Brand: State University of New York Press
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781438461434
Publisher: SUNY Press
Print length: 156 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1438461434
Part of series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
subtitle: Hardcover – July 1, 2016
author: Visit Amazon's Ilan Stavans Page search results Ilan Stavans
review: Editorial Reviews Review "This volume … will be of greatest interest to scholars of Borges and of Argentine literature.” — CHOICE “At long last, our magisterial Jorge Luis Borges is given his full due as Jewish creator. With a prose that sings, Stavans invites us on a spectacular intellectual odyssey into the mind of Borges as honorary Jew—as outsider whose poetry, prose, and philosophical mediation has swept so many of us to the very edges of reason, the self, culture, and the world.” — Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach “This deeply personal, playful, and unexpected meditation on the Jewishness of Jorge Luis Borges illuminates not just Borges’s Jewish sensibilities but also Ilan Stavans’s somewhat contrary approach to his own Jewishness. It is also an affectionate love letter to a literary lion whose love for Jewish ideas, literature, and culture was not always returned. Imagining Borges as the luminary writer imagined himself opens a wonderful new window onto Borges’s rich and beautiful soul. Can a non-Jewish writer like Borges write Jewish literature? In this case, as Stavans suggests so convincingly, the answer is a resounding, ‘Si!’” — James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst About the Author Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including Quixote: The Novel and the World and The United States of Mestizo .