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Signs of Borges by Sylvia Molloy (1993, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822314207

ISBN-139780822314202

eBay Product ID (ePID)780909

Product Key Features

Book TitleSigns of Borges

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCaribbean & Latin American

Publication Year1993

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorSylvia Molloy

Book SeriesPost-Contemporary Interventions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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LCCN93-011260

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."-Doris Sommer, Amherst College, "Regarded by many as one of the best critical books on Borges, Signs of Borges now appears for the first time in English. Using a critical perspective informed by theorists such as Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, and Blanchot, Molloy engages in a critical exploration of meaning in Borges' work that preserves the sense of uncanniness, tension, and instability that she believes defines that work." Translation Review "I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."-Doris Sommer, Amherst College, "I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."--Doris Sommer, Amherst College

Dewey Decimal868

Table Of ContentPreface ix Introduction 1 1. Shadow Plays 5 2. Textual Rubrications 26 3. Fragments and Greeks 40 4. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 58 5. Converting the Simulacrum 77 6. Pleasure and Perplexity 95 7. The Buried Foundation 112 Abbreviations 131 Notes 133 Index 139

SynopsisAvailable for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning in Borges's work by remaining true to the uncanniness that is its foundation. Borges's sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless tensions between illusion and meaning, and to the competing desires for fragmentation, dispersal, and stability. Molloy traces the movement of Borges's own writing by repeatedly spanning the boundaries of genre and cutting across the conventional separations of narrative, lyric and essay, fact and fiction. Rather than seeking to resolve the tensions and conflicts, she preserves and develops them, thereby maintaining the potential of these texts to disturb. At the site of these tensions, Molloy locates the play between meaning and meaninglessness that occurs in Borges's texts. From this vantage point his strategies of deception, recourse to simulacra, inquisitorial urge to unsettle binarism, and distrust of the permanent--all that makes Borges Borges--are examined with unmatched skill and acuity. Elegantly written and translated, Signs of Borges presents a remarkable and dynamic view of one of the most international and compelling writers of this century. It will be of great interest to all students of twentieth-century literature, particularly to students of Latin American literature.

LC Classification NumberPQ7797