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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Author’s Introduction
Translator’s Introduction to the First Edition
1. First Words
2. Variations on a Letter avant-la-lettre
I
II
III
3. Paradoxa Ortodoxa
The Contradictions of Writing
To Hear Oneself or Tear Oneself Away: Where To?
A Literal Difference
Prophecy or Provocation?
The Ultrarealism of Borges
Either the Letter or the Cipher
4. On “Ultrarealism”: Borges and Bioy Casares (The Interlacing of the Imagination and Memory on the Thresholds of Other Worlds)
5. Borges and García Márquez: On How to Put Life into Words, and How to Recount Them
6. A Complexly Woven Plot: Borges, Bioy Casares, Blanqui (Conjectures and Conjunctions at the Limits of Possible Worlds)
7. Theoretical Invention in Fiction: Marvels, Miracles, and the Gazes of Miranda
A Particular History
Between Two Means
Theoretical Disenchantments: Secularization and Globalization
The Limits of Criticism
8. The Ironies of a Blind Seer
Of Mere Titles
Blindness: A Point of View
Blind Gazes
Gallery of Photographs
9. Symbols and the Search for Unity
10. The Paradoxes of Paradoxes
11. Vox in Deserto: Borges and the History of Sand
12. The Mystery of the Name
13. Repetitions Are No Surprise
Reserved Passages
14. The Imagination of Knowledge
15. The Place of the Library
16. Fiction between Fraud and Farce: Parodies and Properties of the Name
Notes
Index
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