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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 21 - Borges and the First Spanish Avant-Garde
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
In Borges’s poem, ’A Rafael Cansions Assens’, the image of the Segovia Viaduct in Madrid is a record of the years he spent in that city and of his brief but intense involvement with Ultraism. A member of the literary scene also represented in ’Luces de Bohemia’ by Ramón María del Valle Inclan, the benevolent, heterodox figure of Cansinos Assens was never wholly in tune with the aesthetic programme of Ultraism. Similarly, Borges would disown his Ultraist roots but never lost his admiration and affection for Cansinos Assens. In the long run, the experience from 1919 to 1922 of life in Madrid, Majorca, and Seville was stimulating and seminal in that it allowed Borges to experiment with techniques and themes he would later develop in his work.
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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 173 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020