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OverviewExplores Borges' infatuation with Jewish history and culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ilan StavansPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438461434ISBN 10: 1438461437 Pages: 156 Publication Date: 01 July 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface: Outsider Part I: Yo, judio Part II: Deutsches Requiem Part III: A Catalog of Jewish Symbols Part IV: Beyond Translation Part V: On the Language of Ghosts Coda: Borges y yo Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsAt long last, our magisterial Jorge Luis Borges is given his full due as Jewish creator. With a prose that sings, Stavans invites us on a spectacular intellectual odyssey into the mind of Borges as honorary Jew-as outsider whose poetry, prose, and philosophical mediation has swept so many of us to the very edges of reason, the self, culture, and the world. - Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach This deeply personal, playful, and unexpected meditation on the Jewishness of Jorge Luis Borges illuminates not just Borges's Jewish sensibilities but also Ilan Stavans's somewhat contrary approach to his own Jewishness. It is also an affectionate love letter to a literary lion whose love for Jewish ideas, literature, and culture was not always returned. Imagining Borges as the luminary writer imagined himself opens a wonderful new window onto Borges's rich and beautiful soul. Can a non-Jewish writer like Borges write Jewish literature? In this case, as Stavans suggests so convincingly, the answer is a resounding, 'Si!' - James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst This volume ... will be of greatest interest to scholars of Borges and of Argentine literature. - CHOICE At long last, our magisterial Jorge Luis Borges is given his full due as Jewish creator. With a prose that sings, Stavans invites us on a spectacular intellectual odyssey into the mind of Borges as honorary Jew-as outsider whose poetry, prose, and philosophical mediation has swept so many of us to the very edges of reason, the self, culture, and the world. - Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach This deeply personal, playful, and unexpected meditation on the Jewishness of Jorge Luis Borges illuminates not just Borges's Jewish sensibilities but also Ilan Stavans's somewhat contrary approach to his own Jewishness. It is also an affectionate love letter to a literary lion whose love for Jewish ideas, literature, and culture was not always returned. Imagining Borges as the luminary writer imagined himself opens a wonderful new window onto Borges's rich and beautiful soul. Can a non-Jewish writer like Borges write Jewish literature? In this case, as Stavans suggests so convincingly, the answer is a resounding, 'Si!' - James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst Author InformationIlan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including Quixote: The Novel and the World and The United States of Mestizo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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