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Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

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ISBN-10: 0521141370

ISBN-13: 9780521141376

Edition: 2013

Authors: Edwin Williamson

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, his work has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Edwin Williamson is the King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is the author of The Penguin History of Latin America (updated and revised edition, 2009) and his acclaimed biography, Borges: A Life (2004), has been translated into several languages.