Borges and His Fiction : : A Guide to His Mind and Art / / Gene H. Bell-Villada.
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-fro...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Table of 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