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Joyce's and Borges's Afterlives of Shakespeare

JORGE LUIS BORGES PUBLISHED HIS Antologia de la literatura fantastica (1940) (Anthology of Fantastic Literature) one year after the publication of Finnegans Wake (1939) and one year before Joyce's untimely death in Zurich (1941), a coincidence that is acknowledged by the fact that the name James Joyce appears twice in the table of contents of Borges's eccentric treasury of "fantastic" literature. The Anthology of Fantastic Literature unconventionally conflates Western, Oriental, and marginal discourses alike, placing the Taoist Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu side-by-side with the English writer G. K. Chesterton; the Argentine writer and humorist Macedonio Fernández next to the English ...

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