RLSP 230
Fantastic Fictions Spring 2015
Division I
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Jorge Luis Borges may be the least Latin American of all Latin American authors, or perhaps the most. In the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors” he has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this can only be a selective course. While our primary focus will be the fantastic in Borges’ short stories, with initial forays into the work of Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, María Luisa Bombal, and Juan José Arreola, we will also study his influence on Julio Cortázar, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Roberto Bola&#241o. The course will include at least some consideration of Borges’ impact on the visual arts, and his abiding legacy beyond Latin America. Conducted in Spanish.