Recently added articles from The Romanic Review:

Borges: 'The Reader' in the twenty-first century.(Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges)

Mar 01, 2007; Levine, Suzanne Jill ... I gladly accepted Dominique Jullien's invitation last year to edit an homage to Borges on the twentieth anniversary of his death, June 14 1986. I first entered the Borgesian labyrinth via One Hundred Years of Solitude, in the late sixties, guided by one of Borges's most important readers, ...

Nietzsche, Borges, Garcia Marquez on the art of memory and forgetting.(Friedrich Nietzsche, Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Marquez Gabriel)

Mar 01, 2007; Bell, Michael ... The narrator of Borges's tale "Funes the Memorious" quotes in the opening paragraph a strange interpretation of Funes as a precursor to the Nietzschean Superman: "a vernacular and rustic Zarathustra." (1) Nothing could be further from the Superman, or from Zarathustra, than the paralytic ...

The truth is in the making: Borges and Pragmatism.(Jorge Luis Borges)

Mar 01, 2007; Bosteels, Bruno ... Jorge Luis Borges's affinities with pragmatism, while certainly no secret to his critics, have rarely been studied before with the intensity and seriousness they otherwise undoubtedly deserve. This fact in and of itself should not come as a surprise; rather, it is consistent with a ...

A poetics of the interstice: the mundane and the metaphysical in Fervor de Buenos Aires.

Mar 01, 2007; Castillo, Jorge Luis ... In his groundbreaking study of Spanish American Posmodernista poetry, Herve Le Corre makes a passing but potentially significant remark on the symbolic role played by the city in Jorge Luis Borges's early lyric (170). Echoing the main thesis of Sylvia Molloy's "Flaneries textuales" ...

Metaphor and image in Borges's "El Zahir".(Jorge Luis Borges)

Mar 01, 2007; Dove, Patrick ... One of the most frequently cited lines from the work of Jorge Luis Borges comes from the conclusion of the 1951 essay "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal": "It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors" (Labyrinths 192). Over the years ...

"El Oriente" by Jorge Luis Borges: a poetic bouquet and emblem of the east.

Mar 01, 2007; Fiddian, Robin ... In the system of knowledge about the Orient, the Orient is less a place than a topos, a set of references, a congeries of characteristics, that seems to have its origin in a quotation, or a fragment of a text, or a citation from someone's work on the Orient, or some bit of previous ...

In praise of mistranslation: the melancholy cosmopolitanism of Jorge Luis Borges.

Mar 01, 2007; Jullien, Dominique ... Jorge Luis Borges, we are told, devoted the last few weeks of his life to learning Arabic, with the help of an Egyptian teacher living in Switzerland. (1) In this most appropriately enigmatic of Borgesian endings, it is tempting to read two contradictory aspects of Borges. On the one hand, ...

Unrequited sublimations: Borges reads Spinoza.(Jorge Luis Borges, Baruch Spinoza)

Mar 01, 2007; Kristal, Efrain ... The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy cites Jorge Luis Borges--along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Heine, George Eliot, and George Sand, Somerset Maugham, and Bernard Malamud--as creative writers influenced by Baruch Spinoza. The inclusion of Borges in this list honors the Argentine ...

"Emma Zunz" revisited.

Mar 01, 2007; MacAdam, Alfred ... Every critic who writes about "Emma Zunz" (1) points out that Emma is one of Borges's rare female protagonists; that hers is a detective story but lacks a detective, and that, despite the fact that Emma's crime is resolved, the story is unfathomable. Rarely mentioned is that "Emma Zunz" ...

Linguistic finitude as capability in Borges and Wittgenstein.(Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Mar 01, 2007; Sharkey, E. Joseph ... Epistemological fantasies were dear to Borges. In a moment characteristic of his short stories, the protagonist and narrator of "La escritura del Dios" ("The God's Script") muses on what he calls the "enigma ... de una sentencia escrita por un dios," which happens to be encoded in the pelt ...

Shaping the word: repression, archive, and dialogical discourse in Jorge Luis Borges's "La muralla y los libros".

Mar 01, 2007; Tcherepashenets, Nataly ... While Borges's non-fictions as well as his fictions brought him international fame, (1) in the writer's own words, his style does not change when he composes essays: "Me pregunto si hay alguna diferencia entre el estilo de la narrativa y el estilo del ensayo. En mi caso, no lo hay" (176) ....

Borges against Peron: a contextual approach to "El fin".(Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Domingo Peron)

Mar 01, 2007; Williamson, Edwin ... "El fin" is possibly the least studied of all the stories in Borges's Ficciones. It is at first sight a very slight tale in which Borges chose to alter the ending of Jose Hernandez's classic poem El gaucho Martin Fierro (1872; 1879). Its kinship with "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" is ...

Efrain Kristal. Invisible Work: Borges and Translation.(Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery)(Book review)

Mar 01, 2007; Dove, Patrick ... Efrain Kristal. Invisible Work: Borges and Translation, Vanderbilt University Press: Nashville, 2002. Pp. 213. Sergio Waisman. Borges and Translation. The Irreverence of the Periphery, Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series; Lewisburg: Bucknell ...

Edwin Wiliamson. Borges. A Life.(Book review)

Mar 01, 2007; Yates, Donald A. ... Edwin Wiliamson. Borges. A Life. New York: Viking, 2004, Pp. 574. As he states in the Preface, Edwin Williamson planned to dedicate some four and a half years to the preparation of his biography of Jorge Luis Borges, but the project ended up taking him twice that amount of time ....

Bibliography 1996-2006.(Bibliography)

Mar 01, 2007; Tcherepashenets, Nataly ... Books by Jorge Luis Borges Autobiografia: 1899-1999. Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1999. Borges: Obras, resenas y traducciones ineditas: Diario Critica 1933-1934. Ed. Irma Zangara. Barcelona: Atlantida, 1999. (This book is an edited version of Borges en Revista Multicolor: ...