Borges
Subtitle: the passion of an endless quotation
By: Lisa Block de Behar ; translated by William Egginton with Christopher RayAlexander
Contributors: Egginton, William, 1969-; RayAlexander, Christopher, 1983-
Edition: Second edition.
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781438450315
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Quotation in literature
Work titles: Borges, la pasión de una cita sin fin
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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index.