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Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation

By Lisa Block de Behar

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780791455555, 0791455556, 0791455564, 9780791455562, 9781417520206
LCC
PQ7797.B635 Z6344213 2003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
653 kB (668579 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Pages
224\223
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life’s work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness—through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences—of a certain index of universality.

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