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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used
- Chronology
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges
- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
- Chapter 17 Borges and Cervantes
- Chapter 18 Borges’s Shakespeare
- Chapter 19 Borges and the Dialectics of Idealism
- Chapter 20 The English Romantics and Borges
- Chapter 21 Borges and the First Spanish Avant-Garde
- Chapter 22 Borges and James Joyce: Makers of Labyrinths
- Chapter 23 Borges and Kafka
- Chapter 24 Borges and the Bible
- Chapter 25 Borges and Judaism
- Chapter 26 Borges and Buddhism
- Chapter 27 Borges and Persian Literature
- Chapter 28 Borges and the ‘Boom’
- Chapter 29 Argentina and Cuba: The Politics of Reception
- Chapter 30 Borges and Coetzee
- Chapter 31 Borges in Portugal
- Chapter 32 Borges and Italy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 22 - Borges and James Joyce: Makers of Labyrinths
from Part II - The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used
- Chronology
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges
- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
- Chapter 17 Borges and Cervantes
- Chapter 18 Borges’s Shakespeare
- Chapter 19 Borges and the Dialectics of Idealism
- Chapter 20 The English Romantics and Borges
- Chapter 21 Borges and the First Spanish Avant-Garde
- Chapter 22 Borges and James Joyce: Makers of Labyrinths
- Chapter 23 Borges and Kafka
- Chapter 24 Borges and the Bible
- Chapter 25 Borges and Judaism
- Chapter 26 Borges and Buddhism
- Chapter 27 Borges and Persian Literature
- Chapter 28 Borges and the ‘Boom’
- Chapter 29 Argentina and Cuba: The Politics of Reception
- Chapter 30 Borges and Coetzee
- Chapter 31 Borges in Portugal
- Chapter 32 Borges and Italy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Throughout his career as a writer, Borges strategically strove to create an image of James Joyce as the artificer of intricately woven labyrinths whose sheer scope and encyclopaedic bulk both fascinated and horrified him. The chapter charts the twists and turns of Borges’s ambivalent relationship with Joyce, from his 1925 review of Ulysses and translation of a page of its final chapter, to the development of a more problematic attitude where he sought to reposition his own art of brevity as the antithesis of Joyce’s epic legacy.
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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 180 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020