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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Author's Introduction; Translator's Introduction to the First Edition; 1. First Words; 2. Variations on a Letter avant-la-lettre; I; II; III; 3. Paradoxa Ortodoxa; The Contradictions of Writing; To Hear Oneself or Tear Oneself Away: Where To?; A Literal Difference; Prophecy or Provocation?; The Ultrarealism of Borges; Either the Letter or the Cipher; 4. On "Ultrarealism": Borges and Bioy Casares (The Interlacing of the Imagination and Memory on the Thresholds of Other Worlds); 5. Borges and García Márquez: On How to Put Life into Words, and How to Recount Them.
  • 6. A Complexly Woven Plot: Borges, Bioy Casares, Blanqui (Conjectures and Conjunctions at the Limits of Possible Worlds)7. Theoretical Invention in Fiction: Marvels, Miracles, and the Gazes of Miranda; A Particular History; Between Two Means; Theoretical Disenchantments: Secularization and Globalization; The Limits of Criticism; 8. The Ironies of a Blind Seer; Of Mere Titles; Blindness: A Point of View; Blind Gazes; Gallery of Photographs; 9. Symbols and the Search for Unity; 10. The Paradoxes of Paradoxes; 11. Vox in Deserto: Borges and the History of Sand; 12. The Mystery of the Name.
  • 13. Repetitions Are No SurpriseReserved Passages; 14. The Imagination of Knowledge; 15. The Place of the Library; 16. Fiction between Fraud and Farce: Parodies and Properties of the Name; Notes; Index.