Jorge Luis Borges
An accessible, readable introduction to the life and work of celebrated Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
An accessible, readable introduction to the life and work of celebrated Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

by Jason Wilson
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

by Jason Wilson

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Overview

An accessible, readable introduction to the life and work of celebrated Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781861895905
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 06/16/2011
Series: Critical Lives
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Jason Wilson is professor of Latin American literature at the University College, London. He is the author of Octavio Paz: A Study of His Poetics, An A-Z of Modern Latin American Literature in English Translation, and Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion.

Table of Contents


Introduction
 
1.  Buenos Aires to Palermo
2.  Geneva and Spain
3.  Buenos Aires, the Avant-garde and Literary Friendships
4.  The 1930s, Crisis and Accident
5.  The 1940s, War, Peronism and Writing
6.  From Blindness to Geneva
 
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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