Un ensayo que muestra el costado m�s l�dico y menos solemne del gran escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges.
�Cu�l es la clave, la contrase�a o la mol�cula inigualable que constituye la esencia de lo borgeano? Alan Pauls hilvana, a su manera, un manual de instrucciones que da cuenta de la obra m�s importante de la literatura argentina. Pero m�s que un conjunto de ensayos cr�ticos, El factor Borges atraviesa los principales conceptos asociados a ese universo --originalidad, tradici�n, biblioteca-- para mapear no s�lo el n�cleo de sus textos, sino tambi�n la configuraci�n de su identidad. Una b�squeda tan profunda como incesante por la imagen que el escritor proyect� durante su vida y de manera p�stuma y, por supuesto, esa maquinaria perfecta que se anticip� a su tiempo y trasciende su propia sintaxis.

Tambi�n lo que no siempre llegamos a considerar sobre Borges encuentra una dimensi�n en este libro. Incluso su perseverante naturaleza pendenciera y esas estrategias sutiles pero significativas que Pauls interpreta de manera magistral, como la aparente coqueter�a de quitarse s�lo un a�o de edad para coincidir exactamente con el siglo que le toc� vivir.

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An essay showing the most ludic and less solemn side of the great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
What is the key, the password, or the unparalleled molecule that constitutes Borges' essence? Alan Pauls ties together, in his own way, an instruction manual that gives an account of the most important works in Argentinian literature. But more than a collection of critical essays, The Borges Factor runs through the main concepts associated with this universe--originality, tradition, library--to not only map the core of Borges' texts, but also the geometry of his identity. It is a quest as deep as it is relentless to find the image the writer projected during his lifetime and posthumously. And, of course, that perfect machinery that was ahead of its time and that transcends his own syntax.

Furthermore, what we never fully considered about Borges finds its own dimension in this book. Even his persistently quarrelsome nature, and those subtle yet significant strategies that Pauls interprets masterfully, including the seemingly coy act of pretending to be only one year younger to match exactly the birth of the century he lived in.

About the Author

Alan Pauls es escritor, cr�tico y periodista. Fue profesor de Teor�a literaria en la Facultad de Filosof�a y Letras de la UBA, jefe de Redacci�n de la revista P�gina/30 y subeditor de Radar, suplemento cultural del diario P�gina/12. Es autor, entre otras, de las novelas El pudor del porn�grafo, Wasabi, El pasado (Premio Herralde, 2003), la trilog�a Historia del llanto, Historia del pelo e Historia del dinero y La mitad fantasma; y de los ensayos El factor Borges, Temas lentos y Trance. Reconocido como uno de los escritores argentinos m�s importantes de la actualidad, ha sido traducido a m�s de diez idiomas. La vida descalzo inaugura la biblioteca Alan Pauls en el sello Literatura Random House

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