Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) [Paperback]

Lisa Block De Behar (Author)

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Publication Date: October 24, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0791455564 | ISBN-13: 978-0791455562

Lisa Bock de Behar explores the trope of quotation in the works of Jorge Luis Borges.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Borges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life's work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness-through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences-of a certain index of universality. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Lisa Block de Behar is Professor of Semiotics and Theory of Interpretation at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a renowned Jorge Luis Borges scholar. William Egginton is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (October 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791455564
• ISBN-13: 978-0791455562
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Translation!, April 19, 2010

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This review is from: Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) (Paperback)

The book itself is really interesting, but the translation is so bad as to be almost unreadable. I'm not quite sure how it even got published. Buy it in Spanish if possible!!