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- Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- 1. First Words
- pp. 1-3
- 3. Paradoxa Ortodoxa
- pp. 15-30
- 7. The Ironies of a Blind Seer
- pp. 71-91
- 8. Symbols and the Search for Unity
- pp. 93-105
- 9. The Paradoxes of Paradoxes
- pp. 107-121
- 11. The Mystery of the Name
- pp. 133-140
- 12. The Imagination of Knowledge
- pp. 141-148
- 13. The Place of the Library
- pp. 149-164
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487631
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
55753815
Pages
222
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No