Borges, the Labyrinth Maker

Overview:

  • Title: Borges, the Labyrinth Maker
  • Author: Ana María Barrenechea
  • Year: 1965
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Price: $5.50
  • Pages: x+175
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Borges, the Labyrinth Maker
  • Notes: "This book is an expanded version, containing new materials by the author and by Señor Borges himself, of La expresión de la irrealidad en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges, published by El Colegio de México."
    Edited and translated by Robert Lima.
    First edition.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges
    1. Borges: Life and Works
    2. The Infinite
    • The Function of the Infinite
    • The Vastness of Time and Space
    • The Infinite Multiplications
    • The Infinite Postponements and Cyclical Time
    3. Chaos and the Cosmos
    • The Chaotic Vision of the Universe
    • The Symbols of Chaos and the Cosmos
    4. Pantheism and Personality
    • History, Philosophy, and Language: Attempts to Order and Possess the Universe
    • The Angelic Possession of the Universe
    • Pantheism and the Nullification of Personality
    • Other Cases of the Disintegration of the Individual
    5. Time and Eternity
    • Allusions to the Temporal Flow
    • Disintegration of Time
    6. Idealism and Other Forms of Irreality
    • Berkeley's Idealism
    • Symbols of Irreality
    • Planes of Fiction and Reality
    • Unreality Reflected in Vocabulary and Syntax
    7. Conclusion
        Appendices
    • Explanation of Abbreviations of Borges' Works
    • Borges on Borges
        Bibliography