Table of Contents

Part I. Borges and the Kabbalah: 1. Introduction; 2. Borges and the Kabbalah; 3. Kabbalistic traits in Borges' narratives; 4. Appendix to Part I: 'The Kabbalah', by Jorge Luis Borges; Part II. Fiction: 5. Structure as meaning in 'The South'; 6. Borges, or style as an invisible worker; 7. The making of a style: a universal history of infamy; Part III. Poetry: 8. Outside and inside the mirror in Borges' poetry; 9. Enumerations as evocations: on the use of a device in Borges' late poetry; 10. Language as a musical organism: Borges' later poetry; Part IV. Essays and Other Questions: 11. Oxymoronic structure in Borges' essays; 12. Borges and the new Latin American novel; 13. Borges' modernism and the new critical idiom; Epilogue: On Borges' death; Index.

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This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki.