Julio Premat 
Borges 
An Introduction

This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges’s often paradoxical writing, and leads the novice through the complexity and breadth of Borges’s vast literary production.



Originally published in French by an Argentine ex-pat living in Paris,
Borges includes the Argentine specificities of Borges’s work—specificities that are often unrecognized or glossed over in Anglophone readings.



This book is a boon for university students of philosophy and literature, teachers and researchers in these fields who are looking to better understand this complex author, and anyone interested in the advanced study of literature. Somewhere between a guidebook and an exhaustive work of advanced research,
Borges is the ultimate stepping-stone into the deeper Borgesian world.

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction | A Classic of Modernity



Part I | A Single Sightless Self, a Plural I: Figures

Chapter 1 | The Works of a Hero

Chapter 2 | The Son at Work

Chapter 3 | The Clairvoyance of the Blindman



Part II | A Pensive Sentiment: Materials

Chapter 4 | Impelled by his Germanic Blood: Biography and the Meaning of the Story

Chapter 5 | The Universe,
Whodunit?: Reading and the Detective Novel

Chapter 6 | The Library: Tradition, Betrayal, Transgression

Chapter 7 | Forms of Eternity



Notes

Bibliography

Circa l’autore

Amanda Murphy is a translator and an associate professor of English and translation studies at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.