Leah Leone Anderson is Visiting Researcher in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She has served as a Board Member of the American Literary Translators Association, and translates prose from Spanish and Portuguese.

Borges’s Creative Infidelities is carefully crafted and compelling in its arguments. The author does an admirable job of making the reader feel that they are accompanying her as she thinks her way through translations that at times strike us as idiosyncratic or peculiar but which, more often than not, yield fascinating rewards to those who patiently and carefully unpack them.

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsNote: Affective OrientationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction- Methods, Frames, Approaches1. A Faithful Rebellion: Joyce’s Molly Bloom in Borges’s Spanish- Voyaging Away from the Metropolis- Molly Bloom in Style and Content- Gibraltar and the Argentine Pampas2. The Long Shadow: Borges’s Translation of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own- Some Sexual Politics of Literature in Britain and Buenos Aires- Borges and “Fiction”- Individualizing the Systemic- Women and Talent3. Bringing Back the Biographer: Borges Translates Woolf’s Orlando- Reception and Reflection- Orlando, the Abnormal- Orlando’s Marvelous Time4. Changing Gender Changes Genre: Borges Translates Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms”- Influence’s Influence: Writers’ and Critics’ Reception of Las palmeras salvajes- Charlotte, Harry and the Destabilization of Gender- Borges, Gender and Genre5. Borges and Faulkner’s “Old Man”: Translating the Narrative of a Narration- Faulkner’s “Exasperating Techniques”- Borges’s New Narrators- Textual DebrisConclusionBibliographyIndex

Leah Leone Anderson is Visiting Researcher in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She has served as a Board Member of the American Literary Translators Association, and translates prose from Spanish and Portuguese.

Borges’s Creative Infidelities is carefully crafted and compelling in its arguments. The author does an admirable job of making the reader feel that they are accompanying her as she thinks her way through translations that at times strike us as idiosyncratic or peculiar but which, more often than not, yield fascinating rewards to those who patiently and carefully unpack them.

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsNote: Affective OrientationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction- Methods, Frames, Approaches1. A Faithful Rebellion: Joyce’s Molly Bloom in Borges’s Spanish- Voyaging Away from the Metropolis- Molly Bloom in Style and Content- Gibraltar and the Argentine Pampas2. The Long Shadow: Borges’s Translation of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own- Some Sexual Politics of Literature in Britain and Buenos Aires- Borges and “Fiction”- Individualizing the Systemic- Women and Talent3. Bringing Back the Biographer: Borges Translates Woolf’s Orlando- Reception and Reflection- Orlando, the Abnormal- Orlando’s Marvelous Time4. Changing Gender Changes Genre: Borges Translates Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms”- Influence’s Influence: Writers’ and Critics’ Reception of Las palmeras salvajes- Charlotte, Harry and the Destabilization of Gender- Borges, Gender and Genre5. Borges and Faulkner’s “Old Man”: Translating the Narrative of a Narration- Faulkner’s “Exasperating Techniques”- Borges’s New Narrators- Textual DebrisConclusionBibliographyIndex