Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar Nataly Tcherepashenets
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
ISBN: 0820463957
DDC: 868.6209
LCC: PQ7797
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-197) and index.
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.
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