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Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.

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 edition includes a new introduction by the author and three entirely new chapters, as well as updated images and corrections to the original translation.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Borges
• Subtitle: The Passion of an Endless Quotation
• Author: Lisa Block de Behar
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9781438450315
• ISBN: 1438450311
• ID: 04795230
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2014

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