Borges and the New Fiction in Spanish America
FAIN: FS-10736-78
James E. Irby
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
To analyze selected stories, essays and parodies of Jorge Luis Borges so as to clarify their devices, which set new standards for literary construction in Spanish. To consider Borges' influence on two celebrated "New Novels", Infante's Tres tristes tigres and Marquez's Cien anos de soledad.