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Borges and His Fiction : A Guide to His Mind and Art / Gene H. Bell-Villada.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas Pan American SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292791961
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 868 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface to the 1981 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Page References -- Chronology -- Part I Borges’s Worlds -- 1 Buenos Aires and Beyond -- 2 A Sort of Life, a Special Mind -- 3 What Borges Did for Prose Fiction -- Part II Borges’s Fictions -- 4 The Apprentice Fiction Maker -- 5 Ficciones I -- 6 Ficciones II -- 7 El Aleph I -- 8 El Aleph II -- 9 El Aleph III -- Part III Borges’s Place in Literature -- 10 Dreamtigers and Later Works -- 11 Literature and Politics North and South -- 12 Borges as Argentine Author -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest.writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichés, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing his name to understanding the stories." —New York Daily News "Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful. Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph." —Choice Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges' personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges' stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface to the 1981 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Page References -- Chronology -- Part I Borges’s Worlds -- 1 Buenos Aires and Beyond -- 2 A Sort of Life, a Special Mind -- 3 What Borges Did for Prose Fiction -- Part II Borges’s Fictions -- 4 The Apprentice Fiction Maker -- 5 Ficciones I -- 6 Ficciones II -- 7 El Aleph I -- 8 El Aleph II -- 9 El Aleph III -- Part III Borges’s Place in Literature -- 10 Dreamtigers and Later Works -- 11 Literature and Politics North and South -- 12 Borges as Argentine Author -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest.writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichés, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing his name to understanding the stories." —New York Daily News "Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful. Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph." —Choice Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges' personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges' stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)

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