Borges' Esoteric Library: Metaphysics to Metafiction

by Didier T. Jaen

Borges' use of allusion to esoteric and metaphysical doctrines is foundation for his renovation to fiction toward metafiction. Borges and the Esoteric Tradition; The Esoteric; The Fantastic, and Borges' Metafiction; Borges' Metaphysics as Metafiction; The Loss of the Self; The Loss of Reality; The Loss of Time; The Loss of Words; The Loss of Salvation; "Tion, Upbar, Orbis Tertius" and The Esoteric Tradition; in Place of Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

254 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1992