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Humor in Borges Hardcover - 2000

by Rene de Costa


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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose, often wrote of the humor in the works of contemporaneous authors such as Franz Kafka. In response to this humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of a serious and metaphysical literary figure.

Ren de Costa shows how Borges was concerned with making the embedded humor in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line. De Costa examines the ways in which Borges transformed established modes of writing--the chronicle, the book review, the obituary, the detective story--into genre parodies. He looks at Borges's canonical collections, identifying the humor in such simple things as a footnote, a false epigraph, or a postscript.

Humor in Borges couples elegant scholarship with a comedic edge and is both accessible and enjoyable to read. Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.

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  • Title Humor in Borges
  • Author Rene de Costa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing (
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Humor in Life and Letters Series, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-04-01
  • ISBN 9780814328880 / 0814328881
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.29 x 0.67 in (23.77 x 15.98 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Borges, Jorge Luis - Humor
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99047070
  • Dewey Decimal Code 868

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  • Choice, 10/01/2000, Page 335

About the author

Ren? de Costa is a professor of romance languages at the University of Chicago.
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