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Author Sturrock, John.

Title Paper tigers : the ideal fictions of Jorge Luis Borges / John Sturrock
Published Oxford, Eng. : Clarendon Press, 1977

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Description 227 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction -- Part I: -- 1. The Argentinian -- 2. The metaphysician -- Part II: -- 1. Isolation -- 2. Inspiration -- 3. Idealization -- Part III: -- 1. Concepts and circumstances -- 2. Replicas and reductions -- 3. Discontinuity and disorder -- Part IV: -- 1. The obligation to be interesting -- 2. Games of consequences -- 3. Points of departure -- 4. Odium Theologicum -- Part V: -- 1. The means to an end -- 2. Man into author -- 3. The uses of uselessness
Analysis Borges, Jorge Luis Criticism and interpretation
Fiction in Spanish Argentinian writer Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [215]-220
Notes Also issued online
Subject Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
LC no. 77009352
ISBN 0198157460