Wow! eBook
Borges and the Politics of Form: 11
Author(s): Jose Eduardo Gonzalez (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 July 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 222 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780815328032
- ISBN-13: 0815328036
Book Description
Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges’ international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing Filling this critical gap, Gonzalez begins by rejecting the proposition that Borges withdraws from the real, and provides a detailed analysis of the various political issues that Borges takes up in his essays and short stories. The author places particular emphasis on the turbulent questions that shaped Argentine social history during the period of Borges’ output.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Jose Eduardo Gonzalez (Author)
