Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar - Vol. 151

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Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar examines how spatial thinking—place, setting, and movement—structures narrative meaning across Borges’s and Cortázar’s fiction and essays. The study is situated within comparative Romance languages and literatures (Currents, Vol. 151) and focuses on revelation, dreams, heterotopia, archiving, and psychological division. It connects recurring motifs of displacement to literary utopia, language, and the construction of selfhood within distinct narrative forms.

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Pages222

Reading Time9 h 19 min

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Place in Borges’s Stories and the Irony of Revelation

Chapter 2. Place as Displacement in Cortázar’s Hopscotch

Chapter 3. Fictional and ‘Real’ Places: Convergences and Divergences

Chapter 4. Displacement, Dreams and Archive in Borges’s Essays

Chapter 5. Displacement and the Divided Self in Cortázar’s Stories

Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G. Paulson General Editors Vol. 151 PETER LANG New York y Washington, D.C./Baltimore y Bern Frankfurt am Main y Berlin y Brussels y Vienna y Oxford Nataly Tcherepashenets Place and Displacement in the Narrative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar PETER LANG New York y Washington, D.C./Baltimore y Bern Frankfurt am Main y Berlin y Brussels y Vienna y Oxford Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tcherepashenets, Nataly. Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar / Nataly Tcherepashenets. [p. cm](p. cm).—(Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures; v. 151) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899– —Criticism and interpretation.2 . Cortázar, Julio—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899– —Settings. 4. Cortázar, Julio—Settings. 5. Displacement (Psychology) in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PQ7797 . B635Z933 868’. 6209—dc22 2005024268 ISBN 978-0-8204-6395-7 ISSN 0893-5963 Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the “Deutsche Nationalbibliografie”; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at [http://dnb.ddb.de/](http://dnb.ddb.de/). Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reproduce the following: “Coleridge’s Dream” from Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley (Penguin, 1998) Copyright © Maria Kodama, 1998. Translation and notes © Penguin Putnam Inc. 1998. “Coleridge’s Dream,” translated by Eliot Weinberger, from SELECTED NON-FICTIONS by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, copyright © 1999 by Maria Kodama; translation copyright © 1999 by Penguin Putnam Inc. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. “The Aleph,”“The Disk,”“The Book of Sand,”“A Weary Man’s Utopia,” from COLLECTED FICTIONS by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, copyright © 1998 by Maria Kodama; translation copyright © 1998 by Penguin Putnam Inc. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. From The Great Wall of China in Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. From THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, copyright 1936, 1937 by Heinr, Mercy Sohn, Prague. Copyright © 1946 and renewed 1974 by Schocken Books. Used by permission of Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc. From “Distances,” from End of the Game and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, translated by Paul Blackburn. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. From END OF THE GAME AND OTHER STORIES by Julio Cortázar, translated by Paul Blackburn, copyright © 1963, 1967 by Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. From Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa, published by Harvill. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. From HOPSCOTCH by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa, copyright © 1966 by Randhom House, Inc. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council of Library Resources. © 2008 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York 29 Broadway, 18th floor, New York, NY 10006 [www.peterlang.com](www.peterlang.com) [All rights reserved.](All rights reserved.) Reprint or reproduction, even partially, in all forms such as microfilm, xerography, microfiche, microcard, and offset strictly prohibited. Printed in Germany In memory of m

FAQs

What is the central focus of the book?

The book explores how place and displacement shape narrative meaning in the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar.

Which parts of Borges’s writing does the book analyze?

It addresses Borges’s stories and essays, including themes such as revelation, dreams, and archive.

How does the book relate displacement to Cortázar’s fiction?

It examines displacement through Cortázar’s narrative strategies, such as settings in Hopscotch and the psychological division of characters.

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