In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view...
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In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's purported ""irreality."" By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved and least understood works, this study also gives us a new sense of Borges's place within the context of contemporary literature.Through a detailed examination of seven stories, Dan
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-203) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: History, Politics, and Literature in Borges; 2 Menard and His Contemporaries: The Arms and Letters Debate; 3 The "Labyrinth of Trenches without Any Plan" in "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan"; 4 Prague, March 1939: Recovering the Historicity of "El milagro secreto"; 5 Cryptogram and Scripture: Losing Count in "La escritura del dios"; 6 Going Native: Beyond Civilization and Savagery in "Historia del guerrero y de la cautiva"; 7 On the Threshold of Otherness: British India in "El hombre en el umbral"
8 Behind Closed Doors: The Guayaquil Meeting and the Silences of History9 Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
