This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges’ views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central themes in Borges’ engagement with “the Judaic,” contextualizing them within his contemporary Argentine debates about nationalism and literature, postcolonialism and aesthetics.
This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges’ views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central themes in Borges’ engagement with “the Judaic,” contextualizing them within his contemporary Argentine debates about nationalism and literature, postcolonialism and aesthetics.
YITZHAK LEWIS is an assistant professor of humanities at Duke Kunshan University, China. He is the author of A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity.
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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A Game of Inheritance * The Judaic * From Kabbalah to Tradition (the Structure of the Argument) * Methodological Notes Section I: Kabbalah 2. Chapter 1: Kabbalistic Stories * Kabbalistic Methodologies * Encountering Scholem 3. Chapter 2: The Ideal Author * A Vindication of the Author * What is an Author? * Another Creation Story * Cabal and Complot * A Comment on Literature and Conspiracy 4. Chapter 3: The Ideal Reader * Borges’ Parable of the Cave * The Narrator and the Kabbalist * Kabbalah and Tradition Section II: Tradition 5. Chapter 4: The Trouble with Tradition * Literary Tradition * Jewish Tradition * National Tradition * Tradition in the Historical Sense * The Postwar Question of Tradition 6. Chapter 5: What is Jewish Tradition? * First Rejection: The Essential * Second Rejection: The Original * Third Rejection: The Rupture * The Departure from Tradition * Veblen, An Imbalanced Analogy * Veblen, An Evolving Analogy 7. Chapter 6: Tradition and Local Color * Between Jewish and Israeli Literature * “The Memory of Israel is in Agnon” * Between Tradition and Local Color * Bring on the Camels Section III: Authorship 8. Chapter 7: Authorship and its Metaphors * Hasidism * The Sphere of In-Between * Kafka and his Precursors * A New Metaphor for Authorship 9. Conclusion: Borges and his Kafkaesque Precursors Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Game of Inheritance 1 The Judaic 4 From Kabbalah to Tradition (the Structure of the Argument) 7 Methodological Notes 10 Part I Kabbalah 1 Kabbalistic Stories 15 Kabbalistic Methodologies 17 Encountering Scholem 22 2 The Ideal Author 29 A Vindication of the Author 31 What is an Author? 33 Another Creation Story 37 Cabal and Complot 39 A Comment on Literature and Conspiracy 42 3 The Ideal Reader 51 Borges’s Parable of the Cave 54 The Narrator and the Kabbalist 59 Kabbalah and Tradition 68 Part II Tradition 4 The Trouble with Tradition 73 Literary Tradition 75 Jewish Tradition 78 National Tradition 79 Tradition in the Historical Sense 82 The Postwar Question of Tradition 87 5 What Is Jewish Tradition? 91 First Rejection: The Essential 93 Second Rejection: The Original 95 Third Rejection: The Rupture 96 The Departure from Tradition 98 Veblen, an Imbalanced Analogy 104 Veblen, an Evolving Analogy 108 6 Tradition and Local Color 113 Between Jewish and Israeli Literature 115 “The Memory of Israel Is in Agnon” 118 Between Tradition and Local Color 123 Bring on the Camels 126 Part III Authorship 7 Authorship and Its Metaphors 135 Hasidism 138 The Sphere of In-Between 142 Kafka and His Precursors 144 A New Metaphor for Authorship 148 Conclusion: Borges and His Kafkaesque Precursors 155 A Sidenote on Another Precursor 157 Jewish Literature after Borges 158 Notes 161 Bibliography 195 Index 000
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A Game of Inheritance * The Judaic * From Kabbalah to Tradition (the Structure of the Argument) * Methodological Notes Section I: Kabbalah 2. Chapter 1: Kabbalistic Stories * Kabbalistic Methodologies * Encountering Scholem 3. Chapter 2: The Ideal Author * A Vindication of the Author * What is an Author? * Another Creation Story * Cabal and Complot * A Comment on Literature and Conspiracy 4. Chapter 3: The Ideal Reader * Borges’ Parable of the Cave * The Narrator and the Kabbalist * Kabbalah and Tradition Section II: Tradition 5. Chapter 4: The Trouble with Tradition * Literary Tradition * Jewish Tradition * National Tradition * Tradition in the Historical Sense * The Postwar Question of Tradition 6. Chapter 5: What is Jewish Tradition? * First Rejection: The Essential * Second Rejection: The Original * Third Rejection: The Rupture * The Departure from Tradition * Veblen, An Imbalanced Analogy * Veblen, An Evolving Analogy 7. Chapter 6: Tradition and Local Color * Between Jewish and Israeli Literature * “The Memory of Israel is in Agnon” * Between Tradition and Local Color * Bring on the Camels Section III: Authorship 8. Chapter 7: Authorship and its Metaphors * Hasidism * The Sphere of In-Between * Kafka and his Precursors * A New Metaphor for Authorship 9. Conclusion: Borges and his Kafkaesque Precursors Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Game of Inheritance 1 The Judaic 4 From Kabbalah to Tradition (the Structure of the Argument) 7 Methodological Notes 10 Part I Kabbalah 1 Kabbalistic Stories 15 Kabbalistic Methodologies 17 Encountering Scholem 22 2 The Ideal Author 29 A Vindication of the Author 31 What is an Author? 33 Another Creation Story 37 Cabal and Complot 39 A Comment on Literature and Conspiracy 42 3 The Ideal Reader 51 Borges’s Parable of the Cave 54 The Narrator and the Kabbalist 59 Kabbalah and Tradition 68 Part II Tradition 4 The Trouble with Tradition 73 Literary Tradition 75 Jewish Tradition 78 National Tradition 79 Tradition in the Historical Sense 82 The Postwar Question of Tradition 87 5 What Is Jewish Tradition? 91 First Rejection: The Essential 93 Second Rejection: The Original 95 Third Rejection: The Rupture 96 The Departure from Tradition 98 Veblen, an Imbalanced Analogy 104 Veblen, an Evolving Analogy 108 6 Tradition and Local Color 113 Between Jewish and Israeli Literature 115 “The Memory of Israel Is in Agnon” 118 Between Tradition and Local Color 123 Bring on the Camels 126 Part III Authorship 7 Authorship and Its Metaphors 135 Hasidism 138 The Sphere of In-Between 142 Kafka and His Precursors 144 A New Metaphor for Authorship 148 Conclusion: Borges and His Kafkaesque Precursors 155 A Sidenote on Another Precursor 157 Jewish Literature after Borges 158 Notes 161 Bibliography 195 Index 000
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