Title: Grounds of Representation: An Essay on a Dilemma in the Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett
Abstract: In their fiction, Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges find themselves caught on the horns of a dilemma: they accept neither a literature that imitates not a literature that refuses to imitate. This book proposes the following understanding of their project, against the context of contemporary trends in science and art: that only when the writer begins to extricate himself from realism and anti-realism can he or she keep suspense to a minimum. In creating a literature aware of itself and its own limits, both writers create a self-destructive fiction that places the reader in the same relation to the text as the writer to the act of writing.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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