Borges

By: Edwin B. Williams, Edwin Williamson

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Acclaimed as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Jorge Luis Borges revolutionized the literature of Latin America almost single-handedly, as well as having a remarkable impact in Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and many other countries. He became famous for his astonishing tales of fantasy and metaphysics, but he was also a poet and essayist of formidable skill.
This is the first biography in any language to encompass the entire span of Borges's life and work, based on previously unknown or unavailable sources. It brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, his relations with family and friends, in love and in despair. It charts the evolution of his political ideas: his early days as a cultural nationalist, his activities against Peron, his support for the Argentine military juntas during the Dirty War of the 1970s, and the pacifism he finally espoused. By correlating this new biographical information with Borges's literary texts, Edwin Williamson reconstructs the dynamics of his inner world - the conflicts, desires, and obsessions that drove the man and shaped his work.

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Sword and the Dagger (1899-1921)	p. 1
Family and Nation	p. 3
Mother and Father	p. 17
Childhood (1899-1914)	p. 32
Geneva (1914-1919)	p. 55
Spain (1919-1921)	p. 68
A Poet in Love (1921-1934)	p. 91
Buenos Aires (1921-1923)	p. 93
Second Visit to Europe (1923-1924)	p. 115
Adventures in the Avant-Garde (1925)	p. 130
The Aleph (1926)	p. 139
Rejection (1926-1927)	p. 149
Revenge and Defeat (1927-1930)	p. 160
Experiments in Fiction (1930-1932)	p. 175
The Rivals (1933-1934)	p. 191
A Season in Hell (1934-1944)	p. 205
Failure (1934-1935)	p. 207
Isolation (1936-1937)	p. 217
The Death of Father (1938-1939)	p. 230
The Example of Dante (1939-1940)	p. 240
The Garden of Forking Paths (1940-1944)	p. 256
Of Hell and Heaven (1944-1969)	p. 273
The "New Beatrice" (1944-1946)	p. 275
Humiliation and Anguish (1946-1947)	p. 291
False Hopes (1947-1950)	p. 299
Borges Against Peron (1950-1955)	p. 311
La Revolucion Libertadora (1955-1959)	p. 326
The Rule of Mother (1958-1963)	p. 342
Deconstructions (1963-1967)	p. 355
Marriage (1967-1968)	p. 369
Love Regained (1969-1986)	p. 383
Iceland (1969-1971)	p. 385
Between Sunset and Dawn (1971-1975)	p. 403
A New Dawn in Iceland (1975-1976)	p. 416
Blue Tigers (1976-1979)	p. 428
The Music of Japan (1979-1981)	p. 441
Deconstructing the Nation (1980-1983)	p. 452
The Weaver of Dreams (1984-1985)	p. 468
Creating an End (1985-1986)	p. 481
Epilogue	p. 490
Glossary of Argentine Terms	p. 493
Notes	p. 495
Bibliography	p. 537
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