Coetzee'sFoeand Borges: An Intertextual Reading
| Autor: | Enrique Galván-Álvarez, Fernando Galván |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Literature
050101 languages & linguistics Literature and Literary Theory business.industry J.M media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Art 060202 literary studies Variety (linguistics) Reading (process) Coetzee 0602 languages and literature WOS Criticism Scopus 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Re-Unir. Archivo Institucional de la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja instname |
| Popis: | Foe(1986) is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions. This essay purports to contribute another intertextual reading of the novel, trying to elucidate some of its dark points, particularly section IV, which has been so much debated and for whose ambiguity no wholly satisfactory explanation has so far been produced. Our main contention is that, in addition to Borges's narratives "Pierre Menard, Author of theQuixote" (inFictions, 1944) and "Borges and I" (inThe Maker, 1960), Coetzee's novel can benefit from a parallel reading of other Borgesian tales, particularly "Brodie's Report" (1970) and "The Writing of the God" (1949), among others. Borges's gnosticism is clearly followed by Coetzee, who has explicitly acknowledged his interest in the ethical and esthetic motivations that lie in some of Borges's most mysterious stories. |
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