There Is No Borges

Kopf, Gerhard

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Langue : anglais

Edité par George Braziller, 1993

0807613266 / 9780807613269

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New York. 1993. George Braziller. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807613266. Translated from the German by Leslie Willson. 196 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration: Artist’s book by Marielle Bancou. keywords: Europe Germany Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - There Is No Borges might be described as an epic mystery, for the elusive subject of the narrator's quest is the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, creator of brilliant imaginary worlds. To the narrator, the world of literature means more than reality, a sentiment echoed by Borges: 'Nothing is more precise than fiction.' If this is true, perhaps Borges is one of his own fictive creations. The narrator, a German professor of 'Lusitanics,' both the science of loss and the history of Portugal, is invited to Macao for a lecture tour; professionally and emotionally at life's end, he travels under the auspices of Borges, Cervantes, Conrad's Almayer, and other more or less esoteric and imaginary literary figures. If Borges is fiction, then how much of the future is, as Borges self-consciously writes, a series of memories of the past? As the professor considers the Lusitania, sunk by German torpedoes in 1915, he wonders about the limits of governmental greed, about Tiananmen Square, and World War II. In the inverted mirror of his own Borgesian vision, the professor confronts his country's past, his family's past, and the degree to which we are condemned to repeat history. 'Every book is a mirror of the face bent over it,' writes Kopf's professor. There Is No Borges, written with kaleidoscopic brilliance and wonder, is full of conclusions and suggestions, leads and dead ends. Among the many questions it poses is whether we should not examine the ghosts that lie as much in books as in our own histories. inventory #18865.

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Titre
There Is No Borges
Auteur
Kopf, Gerhard
Éditeur
George Braziller
Année de publication
1993
État de l'article
Very Good in Dustjacket
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0807613266
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780807613269
Édition
First Edition.

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