Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom
Author | : Juan E. De Castro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780826502490 |
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Author | : Juan E. De Castro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780826502490 |
Author | : Sarah Roger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198746156 |
Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, Jorge Guillermo Borges (Borges pere, a failed author). Borges believed that much of Kafka's writing derived from his personal experiences, particularly his relationship with his father. This book looks at how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father, and it offers a thorough analysis of Borges pere's writing, which is supplemented by an appendix that reprints Borges pere's poetry for the first time. Borges and Kafka also provides extensive analysis of Kafka's presence in Borges's critical writing, his translations, and the stories that he modelled on Kafka. Particular attention is paid to the concepts that Borges identified as Kafka's obsessions: subordination, infinity, and hierarchical relationships, which Borges referred to as the "patria potestad." Roger's analysis is accompanied by an annotated bibliography documenting every mention of Kafka in Borges's writing and a list of every Kafka text Borges read. Kafka's influence is especially evident in the stories where Borges was openly imitating Kafka--"La loteria en Babilonia" (1941), "La biblioteca de Babel" (1941), and "El Congreso" (1971)--but it features throughout Ficciones. Reading Borges's writing in light of his interest in Kafka demonstrates his focus not just on the individual's subordinate place in an infinite hierarchy but also on the repercussions these circumstances had for a struggling author like Borges, who was seeking to define himself through his writing.
Author | : Juan E. De Castro |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826502504 |
At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides—like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, or Gabriel García Márquez—see their work as being framed within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition, their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive. Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.
Author | : Rebecca Maria DeWald |
Publisher | : Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : Argentine literature |
ISBN | : 9780854572748 |
This volume reevaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation with an approach that places source and target texts as equal. Combining the translation strategy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the theoretical approaches of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, and the exponents of Possible World Theory, the author examines Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Franz Kafka's short stories in detail. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this study focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena of "translation" and "original" and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue between two texts.
Author | : Emron Esplin |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820349054 |
Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.
Author | : James Whitlark |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838634271 |
This work explores what lies behind the fantastic barrier in a borderland that C. G. Jung called the unconscious, the avant-garde writer Kafka termed incomprehensive, and Whitlark argues is an entire spectrum of muted awareness.
Author | : Laura Jansen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108418406 |
Reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. The first in-depth exploration of Borges' engagement with classical antiquity in any language and a major contribution to the field of global classics and to Borges studies.
Author | : Gerald Guinness |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780915027200 |
This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy. The absence of a predetermined theoretical framework has resulted in an idiosyntractic volume on the different forms of play.
Author | : Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487506309 |
This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.
Author | : Cynthia Lucy Stephens |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 185566349X |
Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.