Borges - The Passion of an Endless Quotation (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Release date:	October 2002
First published:	October 2002
Authors:	Lisa Block de Behar
Translators:	William Egginton
Introduction by:	William Egginton
Dimensions:	229 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-5555-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-7914-5555-6
Barcode:	9780791455555

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