Post or past Borges? The writer as literary object.(Jorge Luis Borges)

From: World Literature Today | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Brescia, Pablo | Copyright information

Borges and I, and I, and I ...

SEVEN YEARS after the centennial of his birth, and on the twentieth anniversary of his death, the competing chorus of scholarship on Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) seems to be never ending: new editions of his work, worldwide academic conferences, and a Center for Studies and Documentation located, until moving recently to Iowa, in a very Borgesian-sounding place, the University of Arhus in Denmark. In that chorus, the critical readings by J...

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