Borges, desire, and sex /

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The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence. This emotionally overwhelming condition shaped his literary experience in ways that have not been understood. Until now Borges has largely been considered an asexual autho...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De la Fuente, Ariel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Series:Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 18.
Subjects:
Borges, Jorge Luis, > 1899-1986 > Criticism and interpretation.
Borges, Jorge Luis, > 1899-1986 > Sexual behavior.
Borges, Jorge Luis, > 1899-1986
Sex in literature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Sex
Sex in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • On Borges's sexuality
  • Biography in literature and the reading of desire and sex in Borges
  • Borges's erotic library: the poetry shelf
  • Sir Richard Burton's orientalist erotica: The thousand night and The perfumed garden
  • Schopenhaur and Montaigne, philosophy and sex
  • Desire and sex in Buenos Aires: Borges's poetry on the arrabal
  • Stoicism and Borges's writing of women
  • "Emma Zunz": sex, virtue, and punishment
  • "La intrusa": incest and gay readings
  • Conclusions.

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