Signs of Borges

by Sylvia Molloy

Book Overview

Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning in Borges's work by remaining true to the uncanniness that is its foundation. Borges's sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822314061
• ISBN13: 9780822314066
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 160 Pages