num_pages: 224
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.
language: English
title: Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation
titlecomplete: Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
ratings_count: 11
publisher: State Univ of New York Pr