Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine writer of serious
avant-garde poetry and prose, often wrote of the humor in the works
of contemporaneous authors such as Franz Kafka. In response to this
humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. Humor in
Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of a serious and
metaphysical literary figure.
Rene de Costa shows how Borges was concerned with making the
embedded humor in his work more apparent without abandoning the
essential story line. De Costa examines the ways in which Borges
transformed established modes of writing -- the chronicle, the book
review, the obituary, the detective story -- into genre parodies.
He looks at Borges's canonical collections, identifying the humor
in such simple things as a footnote, a false epigraph, or a
postscript. He also considers the Universal History of Infamy and
the techniques Borges used to rework serious stories and poems into
overt comedy that ridiculed the notion of high and low culture.
Humor in Borges couples elegant scholarship with a comedic edge
and is both accessible and enjoyable to read. Scholars and students
of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will
delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge
Luis Borges.
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