Borges and the Politics of Form

by Gonzalez,Jose Eduardo

• ISBN13: 9780815328032
• ISBN10: 0815328036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the "real," and provides a detailed analysis of the various political issues that Borges takes up in his essays and short stories. The author places particular emphasis on the turbulent questions that shaped Argentine social history during the period of Borges' output.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	3	(8)
In Search of a Different Modernism	11	(46)
Thinking as Pleasure: Borges and the Culture Industry	57	(40)
Between Krazy Kat and Battleship Potemkin	97	(46)
La peinture de la pensee	143	(26)
The Other Face of Modernity: Borges as an Antifascist	169	(32)
Works Cited	201	(8)
Index	209