Reading Borges after Benjamin
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Reading Borges after Benjamin

Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Reading Borges after Benjamin

Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

About this book

Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.

This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon-including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays-Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.

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Table of contents

  1. Reading Borges after Benjamin
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Abbreviations
  6. 1. Origins and Orillas: History, City, and Death in the Early Poems
  7. 2. Bios-Graphus: Evaristo Carriego and the Limits of the Written Subject
  8. 3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia Universalde la Infamia
  9. 4. Reading History’s Secrets in Benjamin and Borges
  10. Notes
  11. Works Cited
  12. Index