Jorge Luis Borges in Context

Book Overview

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108470440
• ISBN13: 9781108470445
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"