The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges

Daniel Balderston is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Borges Center and its journal Variaciones Borges. He earned his B.A. in English from the University of California-Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton. He has published or edited fifteen books on Borges, and has published widely on other writers including José Bianco, Silvina Ocampo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Ricardo Piglia, Juan José Saer and Juan Carlos Onetti, as well as on translation studies and sexuality studies. Much of his recent work focuses on Borges's manuscripts.Nora Benedict is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia. She received her MA in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia. Her research centers on Latin American literature, book history, and digital and print cultures. Her first monograph, Borges and theLiterary Marketplace (Yale, 2021), explains how the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's general involvement in the publishing industry influenced his formation as a writer and global book markets. Beyond her research on Borges, her second monograph in progress, Taking a Page from Their Books, examines how international publishing firms in the Global North capitalized on the economic, political, and cultural opportunities available to them in the book industry in Latin America. For her accomplishments in research at UGA, she recently was awarded the Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award.

• Introduction Daniel Balderston and Nora Benedict Chronology Part I: Borges: Family, Working Life 1. Borges: Biography and its Discontents Daniel Balderston 2. The Secret Sharer: Borges as Reader Magdalena Cámpora and Mariana Di Ció 3. From the Other Side of the Library: Borges in Newspapers and Magazines Sylvia Saítta 4. Developing an Argentine Style in Form and Content: Jorge Luis Borges and Editorial Proa Nora Benedict 5. Borges: Three Times a Translator Patricia Willson 6. Borges's Lectures: Literature, Travels and Orality Mariela Blanco 7. Jobs and Days: Jorge Luis Borges and the Library as a Scene for Literary Production Laura Rosato and Germán Álvarez Part II: Representative Works 8. Orality and Literacy in Borges: Two Manuscripts of "Del culto de los libros" [On the Cult of Books] Daniel Balderston 9. The 1920s Poetry of Jorge Luis Borges: Remapping, Nostalgia and Mythification Sebastián Hernaiz 10. The Art of Recapitulation: The Early Essays (1920-1936) Nicolás Lucero 11. Inventing Authors, Imagining Books: An Invisible Literary History Julio Premat 12. Knives, Vendettas, Bifurcations: Detective Fiction in Borges Júlio Pimental Pinto 13. Borges, Anthologizer of the Fantastic Emron Esplin 14. Anthologies of the Self: Borges's Self-Figuration Process between 1935 and 1960 Sebastián Urli 15. The Middle Essays and Reviews Dardo Scavino 16. Virgil's Keepsakes: Memory and Oblivion in Poetic Form Silvio Mattoni 17. Borges's Self-Figuration Process in the Late Fiction (1970-1983) Evelyn Fishburn Part III: Collaboration 18. The Bustos Domecq Cycle: Going with and against the Flow Mariano García 19. Jorge Luis Borges and the Interview as Theater Cody C. Hanson 20. Borges and the Creative Economy of the Apocryphal Alfredo Alonso Estenoz Part IV: Reception In Literature 21. A History of Borges's Reception in Argentina Sergio Pastormerlo 22. Borges and the Crucible of Aesthetic Autonomy in Latin America Héctor Hoyos 23. Borges's Reception in Europe and the USA Edwin Williamson 24. Borges in the Eastern Bloc László Scholz 25. Borges and the Formation of the Literary Global South Jay Corwin In Other Fields 26. "Nueva refutación del tiempo" [A New Refutation of Time] and the Portrayal of an Ironic Fate Marina Martín 27. Borges and Postcolonial Studies: Toward the Universal and Back Guido Herzovich 28. Borges in French Theory Bruno Bosteels 29. Borges, Gender, and Sexuality Amy Kaminsky 30. Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges in the Revista Multicolor de los Sábados [Multicolor Saturday Magazine] Patricia M. Artundo 31. Borges, Bewitched by Film Gonzalo Aguilar 32. Political Theory and Borges's Work Alejandra M. Salinas 33. Bird, Schedule, Name: On Some Media in Borges John Durham Peters 34. Mirror. Lens. Puzzlebox. Metaphor. William Goldbloom Bloch 35. Faithfulness and Betrayal: Community, Legitimacy, and Identity in Stories by Jorge Luis Borges Leonardo Pitlevnik