Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts (Volume 1)

Aizenberg, Edna

ISBN 10: 082620712X / ISBN 13: 9780826207128

Published by University of Missouri, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts (Volume 1)
• Publisher: University of Missouri
• Publication Date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 082620712X
• ISBN 13: 9780826207128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The centrality of Jorge Luis Borges to the contemporary aesthetic imagination has been widely recognized. In this book devoted to that topic, Edna Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned and translated essays from a variety of disciplines to provide an assessment of Borges's influence.

About the Author

Edna Aizenberg is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, where she chaired the Department of Spanish. She began her academic career at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, and was a founder of the U.C.V’s School of Modern Languages. A world-renowned scholar of Borges, her book The Aleph Weaver, initiated the study of the Shoah, politics and “reality” in Borges’s work. Its Spanish translation, El tejedor del Aleph: biblia, kábala y judaísmo en Borges won the Fernando Jeno Prize. She published a second, expanded edition Borges, el tejedor del Aleph y otros ensayos in 1997, the essay collection, Borges and His Successors (University of Missouri Press), and Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff and Argentine-Jewish Literature. Her book, At the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture is forthcoming.