Research Catalog

Title

• Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar / Nataly Tcherepashenets.

Author

Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

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Description

xvi, 204 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book engages the notions of place and displacement as heuristic devices for literary analysis of Borges's and Cortazar's narratives. It maps out these authors' visions of place and displacement in some of their most famous texts; locates the 'place' of Borges's texts within Cortazar's fictional universe; and delineates new routes in communication between different literary traditions, and philosophical and anthropological discourses. The book also suggests that the challenge of a strict opposition between place and displacement in Borges's and Cortazar's works is both representative and emblematic of a continuum of Latin American literature."--Jacket

Series Statement

• Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures, 0893-5963 ; v. 151

Uniform Title

Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures v. 151.

Subject

• Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Criticism and interpretation
• Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Settings
• Cortázar, Julio > Criticism and interpretation
• Cortázar, Julio > Settings
• Displacement (Psychology) in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.

ISBN

• 0820463957 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780820463957 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC

61512968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library