Borges' use of allusion to esoteric and metaphysical doctrines is foundation for his renovation to fiction toward metafiction. Contents: Borges and the Esoteric Tradition; The Esoteric; The Fantastic, and Borges' Metafiction; Borges' Art: Metaphysics as Metafiction; The Loss of the Self; The Loss of Reality; The Loss of Time; The Loss of Words; The Loss of Salvation; "Tion, Upbar, Orbis Tertius" and The Esoteric Tradition; in Place of Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Didier T. Jaen is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Davis.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lanham, University Press of America, 1992. 14 x 22 cm, 230 pp. Covers are in fine condition. Intro + preface, the whole of Part I (up to page 41) and chapter 7 ('The Loss of Words', pp. 137-152) have been extensively underlined and annotated in pencil. All other sections are clean. The Book Cellar & Henschel. Seller Inventory # LC1359
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8vo. pp xxiii, 230. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered gilt on spine and front cover. Contents includes: Borges and the Esoteric Tradition; Borges' Art: Metaphysics as Metafiction; "A Vindication of the Cabala": The World within the Word; Language as Metaphysics and "Funes the Memorious". ISBN: 0819184446 Very good, bumped at lower corners, and boards starting to splay. Seller Inventory # C18424
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