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Volume 231 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages
and Literatures series.
Available 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.
Available 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.
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