Borges' ‘late style’: literature, memory and time

Authors

  • Adriana Mancini Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.25.1.231-240

Keywords:

time, insomnia, death, double, late style

Abstract

Using the concept of ‘late style’ established by Adorno (1993) in his analysis of the last quartets of Beethoven and adopted up by Said (2006), we consider the mature Borges’s essays on time and immortality and his exploration of the themes of The Double and insomnia in his fictional works Stories of the Book of Sand and poem The Cipher. We analyse some key characteristics of Borges’s style – coincidences and dissidences – and compare them to those proposed by Adorno for artistic production in later years.

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Author Biography

Adriana Mancini, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, donde se desempeña como docente e investigadora e integra la comisión de doctorado. Ha dictado seminarios y cursos en las Universidades de La Plata, Venecia, Milán, Colonia y Trieste. Tuvo a su cargo la edición de Walter Benjamin, Denkbilder. Epifanías en viajes (2011) y, en colaboración, la edición ilustrada de La ronda y el antifaz. Lecturas críticas sobre Silvina Ocampo (2009). Ha publicado el libro Silvina Ocampo. Escalas de pasión (2003); Bioy va al cine (2015) y artículos sobre ficción argentina en revistas especializadas nacionales y extranjeras. Actualmente investiga acerca de la representación de la vejez y la muerte en la literatura argentina y latinoamericana.

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Published

08.12.2017

How to Cite

Mancini, A. (2017). Borges’ ‘late style’: literature, memory and time. Verba Hispanica, 25(1), 231–240. https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.25.1.231-240

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Literature

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