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Jorge Luis Borges in Context
  • Edited by Robin Fiddian
  • Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    23 January 2020
  • Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

Postcolonial Perspectives on Latin American and Lusophone Cultures
  • Edited by Robin Fiddian
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    17 June 2017
    Print publication:
    31 December 2000
  • This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Using comparative and contrastive methods, Postcolonial Perspectives reinterprets cultural landmarks and traditions of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.

  • 3 - Before One Hundred Years of Solitude: the early novels

  • Edited by Philip Swanson, University of Sheffield
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    01 July 2010, pp 41-56

  • Summary

    From the start it is necessary to establish that the three novels gathered under the above rubric were written over a period spanning almost a decade and represent a variety of influences and styles that resist reduction to a single type. According to the author, he began work on Leaf Storm (La hojarasca) as early as 1950, when he was living in the northern Colombian locations of Sucre and Barranquilla. Although initially rejected by an Argentine publishing house, the novel eventually appeared in Bogotá, in 1955. In the intervening years, García Márquez published a short story, 'Winter' ('El invierno'), which was filleted out of the larger narrative, in December 1952; he subsequently published it again under the revised title of 'Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo' ('Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo') in October-November 1955. Together with the slightly earlier story, 'Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait' ('Nabo, el negro que hizo esperar a los ángeles' [1951]), 'Monologue of Isabel' exemplifies the early influence on García Márquez of William Faulkner, whom he first read in 1949 and whose narrative vision, expressed paradigmatically in As I Lay Dying, underpins the conception and architecture of Leaf Storm. No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, 1958) was penned not in Colombia but in France, where the author was working as a journalist and living in fabled penury, in 1956.

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