Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University, is the author of numerous books of criticism, including At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, and a novel, Certificate of Absence. Oscar Montero is Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."-Doris Sommer, Amherst College

• Preface ixIntroduction 11. Shadow Plays 52. Textual Rubrications 263. Fragments and Greeks 404. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 585. Converting the Simulacrum 776. Pleasure and Perplexity 957. The Buried Foundation 112Abbreviations 131Notes 133Index 139

Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University, is the author of numerous books of criticism, including At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, and a novel, Certificate of Absence. Oscar Montero is Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."-Doris Sommer, Amherst College

• Preface ixIntroduction 11. Shadow Plays 52. Textual Rubrications 263. Fragments and Greeks 404. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 585. Converting the Simulacrum 776. Pleasure and Perplexity 957. The Buried Foundation 112Abbreviations 131Notes 133Index 139

Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at New York University, is the author of numerous books of criticism, including At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America, and a novel, Certificate of Absence. Oscar Montero is Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."-Doris Sommer, Amherst College

• Preface ixIntroduction 11. Shadow Plays 52. Textual Rubrications 263. Fragments and Greeks 404. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 585. Converting the Simulacrum 776. Pleasure and Perplexity 957. The Buried Foundation 112Abbreviations 131Notes 133Index 139