After Borges: (The International Legacy of Jorge Luis Borges)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
CMLIT 543
After Borges
(The International Legacy of Jorge Luis Borges)
Fall MMVII
306 Burrowes / Mondays 2:30-5:30 P.M.
Professor Djelal Kadir
436 Burrowes Building
E-Mail: Kadir@psu.edu
Phone: 863-9629
Office Hours:
Mondays 11:00-12:00;
Tuesdays 2:30-3:30
THE SEMINAR
A reading and research seminar that takes Jorge Luis Borges as pivotal figure of literary and meta-literary discourses in the global context of modern literature and its international practitioners. In examining Borges’ international legacy, the seminar pursues such issues as language and narrative modes, philosophy and trans-discursive paradigms, influence and literary traditions, genre and subterfuge, modernity and post-modernism, systematicity and the counter-intuitive, violence and humor, necessity and randomness, gender and geometry, writing and reading, coitus and cognition, production and reproduction, ephemera and immortality. Readings range from Borges’ declared precursors such as E.A.Poe, Franz Kafka, Macedonio Fernández, and successors such as the Italian Italo Calvino, the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, the Chinese writer Yu Hua, the American novelist Paul Auster, the German Gerhard Kopf, the Spanish (Catalan) writer Enrique Vila-Matas, the Brazilian Luís Fernando Veríssimo , the U.S. writer Oliver Sacks, the Serbian Danilo Kis, the Moroccan writer Tahar ben Jellun, the French writer Michel Rio, among other authors that the participants in the seminar may wish to explore in conjunction with the Borges corpus.
REQUIREMENTS
Active engagement with the material and vigorous participation in weekly discussion. One midterm paper (12 to 15 pages), due at seminar session of week nine. One term paper (ca. 20 pages), due 14 December 2007 by 12:00 noon.
PRINCIPAL TEXT Jorge Luis Borges. Collected Fictions. Andrew Hurley, trans. Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999, $16.95. ISBN: 0140286802, at Webster’s Book Store.
RELATED TEXTS:
Auster, Paul. New York Trilogy. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN 0140131558
Ben Jellun, Tahar. The Sand Child.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, paperback edition, 2000. ISBN 0801864402
Bioy Casares, Adolfo. The Invention of Morel and Other Stories. Austin: U of Texas P, 1985. ISBN: 0292738404
Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. San Diego: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1982. ISBN: 0156439611
Cortázar, Julio. Blow-Up: And Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1985. ISBN 0394728815
Fernández, Macedonio. Selected Writings in Translation. Fort Worth: Latitudes Press, 1989. ISBN: 0941179451
Hua, Yu. The Past and The Punishments. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 1996. ISBN 0824818172
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis in The Penal Colony and Other Stories. Schoken Books, 1995. ISBN 0805210571
Kis, Danilo. The Encyclopedia of the Dead. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1997. ISBN 081011514x
Kopf , Gerhard, et al. There is No Borges. New York: George Brazillier Inc., 1993. ISBN: 0807613266
Pamuk, Orhan. The White Castle. New York: Random House, 1998. ISBN: 0375701613 ($12.00)
Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars. New York: David McKay Co., 1995. ISBN 0679767177
Veríssimo, Luís Fernando,Borges and the Eternal Orangutans. Margaret Jull Costa, Translator. New York: New Directions, 2005. ISBN 2004028203
Vila-Matas, Enrique, Batleby & Co. Jonathan Dunne, trans. New York: New Directions, 2004. ISBN 2004016400
Weschler, Lawrence. Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder. New York: Random House, 1996. 0679764895
READINGS (Reading schedule may shift, as necessary, in the course of the term)
WEEK ONE: THE POSSIBILITY OF LITERATURE & THE LITERATURE OF POSSIBILITY: READING AND WRITING
JLB, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” “The Flower of Coleridge,”
WEEK TWO: BORGES AND HIS PRECURSORS I
Edgar Allan Poe (USA), “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget,” “The Purloined Letter”
JLB, “The Garden of the Forking Paths,” “Death and the Compass,” “Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth”
WEEK THREE: BORGES AND HIS PRECURSORS II
Franz Kafka (Prague), “The Metamorphosis,”
Macedonio Fernández (Buenos Aires), “Toward a Theory of the Novel,” “Not All Waking Consciousness is the Open-Eyed Variety”
Paul Valéry (France), fragment from “On Poe’s ‘Eureka'”
JLB, “The Lottery in Babylon,” “Kafka and His Precursors,” “Macedonio Fernández,” “Valéry as Symbol”
WEEK FOUR: THE TETRAGRAMMATON, OR HARD-BOILED NOIRE
JLB, “Chesterton and the Labyrinths of the Detective Story,” “On Chesterton,” “Death and the Compass”
Luís Fernando Veríssimo (Brasil), Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
Paul Auster (USA), “Ghosts” from New York Trilogy
WEEK FIVE: ARGENTINE TRINITY
JLB, “The South,” “The End,” “The Shape of the Sword,” “The Man on the Threshold,” “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” “Prologue to The Invention of Morel and Other Stories”
Bioy Casares (Argentina), “The Invention of Morel”
Julio Cortázar (Argentina/France), “House Taken Over,” “The Idol of the Cyclades,” “The Night Face Up,” “Secret Weapons”
WEEK SIX: TWO BY TWO
Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”
JLB, “Borges and I,” “The Other,” “The Theologians”
Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), The White Castle
WEEK SEVEN: ONE BY ONE–THE TOTAL UNIT
JLB, “The Library of Babel,” “The Total Library,” “The Aleph”
Danilo Kis (Serbia), “The Encyclopedia of the Dead”
WEEK EIGHT: CIPHER BY CIPHER AND THE ABYSS
JLB, “Et cetera,” “Partial Enchantments of the Quixote”
Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain), Batleby & Co.
WEEK NINE: MID-TERM ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND PAPER DUE
WEEK TEN: INCIPITS AND PROLO(N)GATIONS
Macedonio Fernández, Museum of the Novel of Eterna
JLB, “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim,” “The Immortal”
Italo Calvino (Italy), If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
WEEK ELEVEN: DESULTORY SYMMETRIES
JLB, “The Secret Miracle,” “The Widow Ching–Pirate,” “Narrative Art and Magic,”
Yu Hua (China), “The Past and the Punishments,” “Blood and Plum Blossoms,” “Predestination” fromThe Past and The Punishments
WEEK TWELVE: SHIFTING SANDS
JLB, “The Circular Ruins,” “The Zahir,” “The Cult of the Phoenix,” “The Book of Sand”
Tahar ben Jellun (Morocco), “The Blind Troubadour,” from The Sand Child
Gerhard Kopf (Germany), There Is No Borges
WEEK THIRTEEN: FAITH, LANGUAGE, AGENCY, AND THANATOPRAXIS
JLB, “The Biathanatos,” “Time and J. W. Dunn”
Michel Rio, (France), Parrot’s Perch
WEEK FOURTEEN: HETEROCOSMS AND HETEROLOGIES
JLB, “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” “Funes, His Memory,” “The Writing of the God”
Michel Foucault (France), “Preface” to The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences
Lawrence Weschler (USA), Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders
Oliver Sacks (UK/USA), “An Anthropologist on Mars”
WEEK FIFTEEN: TERM PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS DUE
PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Edgar Allan Poe and Borges
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Roger-Taillade, Nicole. “L’Oeuvre litteraire et le labyrinthe (Le Chateau de F. Kafka, L’Aleph de J. L. Borges, L’Emploi du temps de M. Butor).” Litteratures (Toulouse, France) 31 (1994 Fall): 129-56.
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_____. “The Maze of Misreadings: Thoughts on Mataphor in Kafka.” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 7. 2 (1983 Dec.): 38-43.
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Macedonio Fernández and Borges
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Adolfo Bioy Casares and Borges
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Hernandez Martin, Jorge. Readers and Labyrinths: Detective Fiction in Borges, Bustos Domencq, and Eco. New York: Garland, 1995.
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MacAdam, Alfred J. “El Espejo y La mentira, dos cuentos de Borges y Bioy Casares.” Revista Iberoamericana 37 (1971): 357-74.
—. “Narrativa y metafora: Una lectura de La invención de Morel. Memoria del XVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.” Otros mundos otros fuegos: Fantasia y realismo mágico en Iberoamérica. Ed. Yates, Donald A. East Lansing: Michigan State Univ., Lat. Amer. Studies Center, 1975. 309-13.
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Pellicer, Rosa. “Borges, Bioy y Bustos Domecq: influencias, confluencias.” Variaciones Borges: Journal of the Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation 10 (2000): 5-28.
______. “La eternidad melancólica de los mundos posibles––Borges, Bioy Casares.” Variaciones Borges: Journal of the Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation 15 (2003): 93-110.
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Villordo, Oscar Hermes. “Bioy Casares: Historia de una amistad.” Suplemento Literario, La Nación (Buenos Aires) (1986 June 22): 1-2.
Julio Cortázar and Borges
Alazraki, Jaime. “Dos soluciones estilísticas al tema del compadre en Borges y Cortázar.” Estudios sobre los cuentos de Julio Cortázar.Ed. David Lagmanovich. Barcelona: Hispam, 1975. 23-39.
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Gyurko, Lanin A. “The Metaphysical World of Borges and Its Impact on the Novelists of the Boom Generation.” Ibero-Amer. Archiv. 14. 2 (1988): 215-261.
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____”Lo imaginario y lo fantástico en E. Anderson Imbert – J.L. Borges – A. Bioy Casares – J. Cortázar – F. Hernandez – S. Ocampo – A. Somers: Tradicion e historiografia paraguaya.” Rio de la Plata: Culturas 1 (1985).
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Stabb, Martin S. “Utopia and Anti-Utopia: The Theme in Selected Essayistic Writings of Spanish America.” Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 15. 3 (1981 ct.): 377-393.
Thon, Sonia. “El ritmo en la prosa de Borges y Cortázar.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 13.2 (1989 Winter): 241-253.
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Wheelock, Carter. “Borges, Cortázar, and the Aesthetic of the Vacant Mind.” International Fiction Review 12. 1 (1985 Winter): 3-10.
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Italo Calvino and Borges
Ainsa, Fernando. “Los sueños de Borges y Calvino revisitados por Marco Polo.” Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos: Revista Mensual de Cultura Hispánica. 553-554 (1996 July-Aug): 105-19.
Alfano, Barbara. “Fugitive Giegesis of the First Person Singular in Borges and Calvino.” Variaciones Borges: Journal of the Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation 11 (2001): 103-119.
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Calvo Montoro, María J. “Italo Calvino/Jorge Luis Borges: De la reflexión crítica al intertexto.” Cuadernos Americanos 64 (1997 July-Aug): 179-94.
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Capozzi, Rocco. “Intertextuality and the Proliferation of Signs/Knowledge in Eco’s Super-fictions.” Forum Italicum 32.2 (1998 Fall): 456-81.
Coloquio Internacional: Borges, Calvino, la Literatura (El coloquio en la Isla). 2 vols. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 1996.
Heiney, Donald. “Calvino and Borges: Some Implications of Fantasy.” Mundus Artium: A Journal of International Literature and the Arts 2. 1 (1968): 66-76.
Krenz, David Christoph. “Metaphors for Infinity: The Parables of Kafka, Borges, and Calvino.” Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), Ann Arbor, MI. 54. 2 (1993 Aug): DAI No: DA9317625. Degree Granting Institution: U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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Ogut, Ozlem. “From Psychoanalysis to Schizoanalysis: Borges and Calvino through Lacan, Barthes, Deleuze and Guattari.” RLA: Romance Languages Annual 6 (1994): 559-64.
Pellizzi, Federico. ” Metafore della distanza in Borges e Calvino.” Strumenti Critici: Rivista Quadrimestrale di Cultura e Critica Letteraria. 12.2 (84): (1997 May):291-307.
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Varsava, Jerry. “The Last Fictions: Calvino’s Borgesian Odysseys.” Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts. Ed. Aizenberg, Edna. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1990. 183-199.
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Danilo Kis and Borges
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Gerhard Kopf and Borges
Burgin, Richard. “There Is No Borges. By Gerhard Kopf.” Book World XXIII. 29 (July 18, 1993): 7.
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Borges & You: A Quinto
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