Borges and Joyce stand as two of the most revolutionary writers of
the twentieth-century. Both are renowned for their polyglot
abilities, prodigious memories, cyclical conception of time,
labyrinthine creations, and for their shared condition as European
emigres and blind bards of Dublin and Buenos Aires. Yet at the same
time, Borges and Joyce differ in relation to the central aesthetic
of their creative projects: the epic scale of the Irishman
contrasts with the compressed fictions of the Argentine. In this
comprehensive and engaging study, Patricia Novillo-Corvalan
demonstrates that Borges created a version of Joyce refracted
through the prism of his art, thus encapsulating the colossal
magnitude of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake within the confines of a
nutshell. Separate chapters triangulate Borges and Joyce with the
canonical legacy of Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare using as a point
of departure Walter Benjamin s notion of the afterlife of a text.
This ambitious, interdisciplinary study offers a model for
Comparative Literature in the twenty-first century.
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