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Author Alazraki, Jaime.

Title Borges and the Kabbalah : and other essays on his fiction and poetry / Jaime Alazraki
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Description xvii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Borges and the Kabbalah: 1. Introduction; 2. Borges and the Kabbalah; 3. Kabbalistic traits in Borges' narratives; 4. Appendix to Part I: 'The Kabbalah', by Jorge Luis Borges; Part II. Fiction: 5. Structure as meaning in 'The South'; 6. Borges, or style as an invisible worker; 7. The making of a style: a universal history of infamy; Part III. Poetry: 8. Outside and inside the mirror in Borges' poetry; 9. Enumerations as evocations: on the use of a device in Borges' late poetry; 10. Language as a musical organism: Borges' later poetry; Part IV. Essays and Other Questions: 11. Oxymoronic structure in Borges' essays; 12. Borges and the new Latin American novel; 13. Borges' modernism and the new critical idiom; Epilogue: On Borges' death; Index
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
LC no. 88004251
ISBN 0521306841