Imaginal Landscapes: Reflections on the Mystical Visions of Jorge Luis Borges and Emanuel Swedenborg - Hardcover

Rowlandson, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0854481834 ISBN 13: 9780854481835

Publisher: The Swedenborg Society, 2015

Synopsis

In 1978, the great Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges described Emanuel Swedenborg as the most extraordinary man in recorded history. In Imaginal Landscapes, William Rowlandson offers a brief but deep-reaching study of this often-unknown appreciation, showing how the Swedish visionary's influence has gone a long way to explain Borges's preoccupations with parallel existences, the infinite, and the mystery of language. Delightfully written and steeped in a wonderful sense of curiosity, Imaginal Landscapes cements Rowlandson's position as one of the UK's leading scholars on Borges, and it raises important questions about the criteria we often use to assess the lives and works of those thinkers and writers who have come to be labeled as mystics.

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About the Author

William Rowlandson is a senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Borges, Swedenborg and Mysticism (Peter Lang, 2013) and has published widely on Latin American cultural and political history.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Swedenborg Society
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0854481834
• ISBN 13: 9780854481835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 76