Edna Aizenberg is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, where she chaired the Department of Spanish. She began her academic career at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, and was a founder of the U.C.V's School of Modern Languages. A world-renowned scholar of Borges, her book The Aleph Weaver, initiated the study of the Shoah, politics and "reality" in Borges's work. Its Spanish translation, El tejedor del Aleph: biblia, k�bala y juda�smo en Borges won the Fernando Jeno Prize. She published a second, expanded edition Borges, el tejedor del Aleph y otros ensayos in 1997, the essay collection, Borges and His Successors (University of Missouri Press), and Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff and Argentine-Jewish Literature. Her book, At the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture is forthcoming.
"Borges and His Successors is a remarkable book . . . extremely
valuable for its many insights into Jorge Louis Borges (1899-1986)
and his strategies for evading the conventional process of
storytelling, all the while he was producing an influential body of
ficciones."--Studies in Short Fiction
"Modern literary theory abounds here and the view of Borges'
authority is generous. . . . The eternally compelling theme of
literature and life, literature and death, is reenacted in this
splendid volume of mythic proportions."--Book Reader
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