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

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" (488-489), Le Corre contends that the city, or rather its outskirts (el suburbio), constitutes an emblematic space where the poetic self of the posmodernistas is partially unraveled and fragmented by coming into close contact with objects and events from everyday urban life. (1)

Le Corre's brief but apt assessment achieves significance when one contextualizes it, as I would, against the ...

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