Humor in Borges (Humor in Life and Letters Series) - Tapa dura

De Costa, Rene

 
9780814328880: Humor in Borges (Humor in Life and Letters Series)
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ISBN 10: 0814328881 ISBN 13: 9780814328880
Editorial: 0, 2000

Sinopsis

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose, often wrote of the humor in the works of contemporaneous authors such as Franz Kafka. In response to this humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of a serious and metaphysical literary figure. 

René de Costa shows how Borges was concerned with making the embedded humor in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line. De Costa examines the ways in which Borges transformed established modes of writing—the chronicle, the book review, the obituary, the detective story—into genre parodies. He looks at Borges's canonical collections, identifying the humor in such simple things as a footnote, a false epigraph, or a postscript.

Humor in Borges couples elegant scholarship with a comedic edge and is both accessible and enjoyable to read. Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.

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René de Costa is a professor of romance languages at the University of Chicago.

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Editorial
0
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0814328881
ISBN 13 
9780814328880
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Número de páginas
148
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