Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges

by Daniel Balderston

In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's purported "irreality." By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved and least understood works, this study also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313162
• ISBN13: 9780822313168
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"