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SPAN 108. Jorge Luis Borges

Photo of Jorge Luis Borges and a garden maze

This seminar focuses on Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential writers of the 20th 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. We will explore Borges’s recurrent themes and symbols: mirrors and labyrinths, identity and free will, metafiction and hypertexts, logic and theory. The goal of this course is to read Borges from the double perspective required by his worldwide fame: as a universal writer who transcends national borders, but also as a writer that seeks to reinvent the history and the traditions of his own country, Argentina.

ELIGIBLE FOR SPANISH, LALS, INTP – 2 credits

SPAN 108. Jorge Luis Borges
SPRING 2021
Prof. Luciano Martínez
Wednesday
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Remote