I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. The first of these is a parable and the last an examination of a writer known for his parables and stories wherein one finds parables within parables or stories within stories, as we find in the Homeric epics and the Thousand and One Nights, which Borges refers to in many of his stories and poems. Perhaps a course devoted to Borges would be appropriate.įor our approach to Borges, we will begin with three short texts: Borges and I, The Other, and Kafka and his Precursors. So we will try to take up some of these up leitmotifs, but much will be left unsaid and unexamined - all of which is up to you to pursue further. While I have always found Borges to be a uniquely appealing writer, that is not why he is included in the genealogy of Cultural Studies that I am presenting to you.Īmong the reasons to read Borges are the influence his work had on, for example, Michel Foucault and his views on the author, authority, and critical analysis the themes which circulate freely across Borges’ works are precursors of many of the themes we later find in Cultural Studies and related fields his simultaneous marginality and cosmopolitanism. They are artifacts rather than aesthetic objects. Instead, these constitute objects of study whose construction and interpretation may give us some insight into our own existence. Why read Borges in the context of a genealogy of Cultural Studies? Well, first of all, keep in mind that we do not examine literatures, objects, or sounds as mere critics. Borges the person we will leave to the biographers and focus for the most part on Borges the author, as he suggested. Perhaps it is interesting to note that it is easier to speak about Borges than it is to write about him. In fact, the difficulty of approach, or rather the multiplicity of possible approaches to Borges mirrors the multiplicity of possible approaches to the genealogy of Cultural Studies. Watson and refine the horror of human life found in the most irreproachable boarding houses of Brighton." There is no one approach or point of departure for examining his work and its significance for Cultural Studies. Much like The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim there is a "hybridization" or "a rather uncomfortable combination of those allegorical poems of Islam which rarely fail to interest their translator and of those detective novels which inevitably surpass John H. cannot be.Jorge Luis Borges: Fragments, Dreams, and the Meaning of Tradition Little Duck: "What? What's been developed?!" ( download).Little Duck: "What information? Tell me now! (blam blam)" ( download).
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