Table of Contents

Author's Introduction Translator's Introduction to the First Edition William Egginton 1. First Words 2. Variations on a Letter avant-la-lettre 3. Paradoxa Ortodoxa 4.On "Ultrarealism": Borges and Bioy Casares (The Interlacing of the Imagination and Memory on the Thresholds of Other Worlds) 5. Borges and Garcia Marquez: On How to Put Life into Words, and How to Recount Them 6. A Complexly Woven Plot: Borges, Bioy Casares, Blanqui (Conjectures and Conjunctions at the Limits of Possible Worlds) 7. Theoretical Invention in Fiction: Marvels, Miracles, and the Gazes of Miranda 8. The Ironies of a Blind Seer 9. Symbols and the Search for Unity 10. The Paradoxes of Paradoxes 11. Vox in Deserto: Borges and the History of Sand 12. The Mystery of the Name 13. Repetitions Are No Surprise 14. The Imagination of Knowledge 15. The Place of the Library 16. The Fiction between Fraud and Farce: Parodies and Properties of the Name Notes Index

About the Author

Lisa Block de Behar is Professor of Communications at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a renowned Jorge Luis Borges scholar. William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Religious Moderation. Christopher RayAlexander is a graduate student and language instructor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University.