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Daniel Balderston is one of the leading Borges scholars of our time, internationally respected both for the depth and extent of his knowledge and for his meticulous scholarship. How Borges Wrote is the first comprehensive book published on Borges's composition techniques and promises to be the definitive study for the foreseeable future. A monumental work.
--Evelyn Fishburn, University College London, author of Hidden Pleasures in Borges's Fiction and coauthor of A Dictionary of BorgesWith How Borges Wrote, Daniel Balderston positions himself yet again as the ultimate Borges scholar. In a sophisticated and probing study of hundreds of manuscripts and notebooks, Balderston sheds light on Borges's creative process by analyzing how the Argentine author used marginal annotations, textual excisions and insertions, and mathematical symbols to produce some of the most original pieces of literature in the twentieth century. As he did with Out of Context, Balderston's extraordinary erudition and refined critical skills dramatically transform our understanding of Borges's work--and shape the way it will be read in the future.
--Fernando Degiovanni, The Graduate Center, CUNYIn a sophisticated and probing study of hundreds of manuscripts and notebooks, Daniel Balderston sheds light on Borges's creative process by analyzing how the Argentine author used marginal annotations, textual excisions and insertions, and mathematical symbols to produce some of the most original pieces of literature in the twentieth century. Balderston's extraordinary erudition and refined critical skills dramatically transform our understanding of Borges's work--and shape the way it will be read in the future.
--Fernando Degiovanni, The Graduate Center, CUNY, author of Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, políticas culturales y canon en ArgentinaIn this superb study, Balderston draws attention to Borges's manuscripts and marginalia to highlight why Borges's writing process merits critical attention. Borges did not believe in a "final" text, and Balderston points out how the prolific writer obsessively edited his own texts, even after publication.... Of special interest are the facsimiles with transcriptions. At the end of this study readers will be reminded of Borges's words quoted in the introduction: "Lo marginal es lo más bello" (What is marginal is what is most beautiful). Balderston includes an extensive bibliography. Summing Up: Essential.
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