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Together with original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays, this book examines a series of Borges's works as allegories of Argentine modernity.
This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon-including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays-Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. Origins and Orillas: History, City, and Death in the Early Poems
Family Trees
A Journey of No Return
Borges and His (Own) Precursors
Sepulchral Rhetoric
Life Possessions
Melancholic Fervor
The Orillas
Acts of Life
2. Bios-Graphus: Evaristo Carriego and the Limits of the Written Subject
The Fallible God of the "I"
Life and Death
The Other American Poet
The Paradoxes of Biography
Carriego Is (Not) Carriego
Violence, Life, and Law
"Generous" Duels
3. Allegory, Ideology, Infamy: Allegories of History in Historia
Universal de la Infamia
"National" Allegory
Ideology
Two Moments of Allegory
Infamy
Magical Endings Et Cetera
4. Reading History's Secrets in Benjamin and Borges
Historical Idealism and the Materiality of Writing
The Conquests of Time
History's Secrets
Possession or the "Weak Force" of Redemption
Refuting Time
Ego Sum
Terrible Infinity
Recurrent Imminence
Reading, Writing, Mourning History
Notes
Works Cited
Index
