SPAN 078. Laberintos borgeanos

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to literature, as a writer but also as an irreverent and subversive reader. None of his lines, none of his declarations happened inadvertently. Hated or held dear, Borges is incessantly quoted. As literary critic Beatriz Sarlo explains, reading Borges as a writer without nationality is an act of aesthetic justice because Borges won, for Latin Americans, the prerogative of working inside all the cultural traditions. However, this universalistic reading ignores the ties that unite him to Argentine and Latin American cultural traditions. We will read Borges from this double perspective: as a universal writer, and also as a writer who seeks to reinvent the history and the traditions of his own country.
Prerequisite: SPAN 022, SPAN 023, the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for LALS, INTP
Catalog chapter: Spanish
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/spanish

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