Rossoni, Stefano;
(2022)
‘A Sinful Passion’: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Readings of Borges from 1964 to 2014.
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
pp. 1-29.
10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article examines Vargas Llosa’s fifty-year-long conflicted fascination for Jorge Luis Borges. The young and leftist Vargas Llosa disregarded Borges as the embodiment of a disengaged intellectual, while the mature Vargas Llosa celebrates him as the emblem of cosmopolitanism that should inspire globalized societies today. Focusing on different stages of Vargas Llosa’s intellectual biography, I examine how his interpretations of Borges are informed by readings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel García Márquez and Miguel de Cervantes. Considering the intersections of political engagement and literary theories, I study how Vargas Llosa incorporates Borges’ intellectualism into his fiction and imbues it with eroticism.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘A Sinful Passion’: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Readings of Borges from 1964 to 2014 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reception, Literature, Politics, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, Deicide, Nove, lLiberalism |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149247 |
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