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Introduction
Chapter 1: On Borges’s Sexuality
Chapter 2: Biography in Literature and the Reading of Desire and
Sex in Borges
Chapter 3: Borges’s Erotic Library: The Poetry Shelf
Chapter 4: Sir Richard Burton’s Orientalist Erotica: The Thousand
Nights and a Night and The Perfumed Garden
Chapter 5: Schopenhauer and Montaigne, Philosophy and Sex
Chapter 6: Desire and Sex in Buenos Aires: Borges’s Poetry on the
Arrabal
Chapter 7: Stoicism and Borges’s Writing of Women
Chapter 8: Emma Zunz: Sex, Virtue, and Punishment
Chapter 9: La intrusa: Incest and Gay Readings
Works Cited
Ariel de la Fuente is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University.
'It is remarkable that there remains under-explored an area of
Borges scholarship, yet the central questions posed here are
important, original, and compelling.'
William Rowlandson, University of Kent
'This is a work of exceptional originality. The historical rather
than literary perspective has brought to the fore entirely new
readings, both regarding the interplay between Borges’s life and
his work, and between his reading and creative output. At the
moment it stands almost alone in its approach and methodology. This
work will become a mandatory tool in the development of future
research.'
Evelyn Fishburn, University College London, author of A Dictionary
of Borges
'The author offers a detailed argument…assembling strong evidence
for his case, while opening new avenues of investigation of
Borges’s life and works…For [its] novel investigations of key
[Borges’s] works, for highlighting the erotic focus of some of
Borges’s readings, for offering a timely reminder of the importance
of Stoic philosophy in the Argentine writer’s thinking, as well as
for its exposition of the sexual dimensions of Borges’s poetry on
the arrabal, among other merits, the book is very valuable. In the
end, it serves to bring to light the important role that sex and
desire played in [Borges’s] life and work.'
Bill Richardson (National University of Ireland), Variaciones
Borges
'De la Fuente makes a compelling argument not merely for the
importance of sexuality in Borges’s work, but for its extent. The
author marshals his evidence and presents it clearly… Borges,
Desire, and Sex makes a major contribution to our better, more
complete understanding of the man and his work. I recommend it
highly.'
Earl Fitz (Vanderbilt University), Estudios Interdisciplinarios de
América Latina y El Caribe
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