Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge

Overview:

  • Title: Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge
  • Author: Beatriz Sarlo
  • Year: 1993
  • ISBN-10: 0860914402
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Pages: 166
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge
  • Notes: Edited by John King.
    Copy seen by verifier was without a dust jacket.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Editor's Preface
    Introduction

    Part One: Writing on the Edge
    1. A Landscape for Borges
    2. Borges and Argentine Literature
    3. Tradition and Conflicts
    4. Tropes of Fantastic Literature
    5. Imaginary Constructions
    6. The Question of Order
    Part Two: The Avant-Garde, Buenos Aires and Modernity
    7. The Adventure of Martin Fierro: The Avant-Garde and Criollismo
    8. Utopia and the Avant-Garde
    Bibliography
    Index