This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The r
Editor Jullien (French and comparative literature, U. of California, Santa Barbara) presents this study examining the concept of foundational texts in world literature. The concept was originally intr
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