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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used
- Chronology
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges
- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
- Chapter 1 Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity
- Chapter 2 Borges and the Banda Oriental
- Chapter 3 Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex
- Chapter 4 Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and the Two World Wars
- Chapter 5 Dictatorship and Writing (1976–1983)
- Chapter 6 The Public Author and Democracy (1984–1986)
- Chapter 7 Borges and Las Islas Malvinas
- Chapter 8 Borges and Sarmiento
- Chapter 9 Borges and the Gauchesque
- Chapter 10 1920s Buenos Aires
- Chapter 11 Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde
- Chapter 12 The Argentine Writer and Tradition
- Chapter 13 Borges, Tangos, and Milongas
- Chapter 14 Borges and Bioy Casares
- Chapter 15 Borges and Popular Culture
- Chapter 16 Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia
- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 16 - Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia
from Part I - Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Jorge Luis Borges in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used
- Chronology
- Note on Translations and Abbreviations
- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges
- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation
- Chapter 1 Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity
- Chapter 2 Borges and the Banda Oriental
- Chapter 3 Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex
- Chapter 4 Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and the Two World Wars
- Chapter 5 Dictatorship and Writing (1976–1983)
- Chapter 6 The Public Author and Democracy (1984–1986)
- Chapter 7 Borges and Las Islas Malvinas
- Chapter 8 Borges and Sarmiento
- Chapter 9 Borges and the Gauchesque
- Chapter 10 1920s Buenos Aires
- Chapter 11 Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde
- Chapter 12 The Argentine Writer and Tradition
- Chapter 13 Borges, Tangos, and Milongas
- Chapter 14 Borges and Bioy Casares
- Chapter 15 Borges and Popular Culture
- Chapter 16 Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia
- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
A conception of the Argentine literary tradition as one built around creative misreading can be directly linked with Borges. Leading writers Cesar Aira and Ricardo Piglia engage with Borges in a similar manner both to modify and to write themselves into a new Argentine literary tradition. In essays including ’Homage to Roberto Arlt’ and ’Ideology and Fiction in Borges’, Piglia utilizes a reading of Borges in terms of ’erroneous attribution’ to politicize his work and situate himself as Borges’s true descendent. For his part, Aira’s rejection of Borges in his 1993 essay ’Exoticism’ is not as absolute as it appears; an earlier essay of 1981, ’Who is the Greatest Argentine Writer?’, marks him as Borges’s heir.
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- Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 130 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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