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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2020
      January 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108635981
      9781108470445
      9781108456050
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108635981
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.453kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Literature in Context
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Literature in Context
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    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

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    ‘… this is an excellent, up-to-date study of the masterful Argentine writer.’

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