Signs of Borges

Download or Read eBook Signs of Borges PDF written by Sylvia Molloy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Signs of Borges
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0822314207
ISBN-13 : 9780822314202
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Book Synopsis Signs of Borges by : Sylvia Molloy

Book excerpt: Publisher description -- 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 meaningless 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.


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