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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 28 - Borges and the ‘Boom’
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
Borges’s impact on the ’Boom’ writers of Spanish American narrative consists of several factors, beginning with his unapologetic universalism. His translations of authors including Kafka, Virginia Woolf and Faulkner broadened literary horizons. He provided the Boom novelists with a model of style and verbal artifice that broke with previous practices. His laconic humour and playfulness enliven the works of García Márquez, Cabrera Infante, Donoso, and Cortázar, who all acknowledge a debt. Borges also equipped them with a set of narrative tehcniques and devices which allowed them to represent the worlds around them with previously unimagined sophistication and sweep. His insistence on reader-involvement in the construction of the literary work is another item of his legacy.
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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 228 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020