Borges and Ge Fei: Transfiguring the poetics of atemporal labyrinth.
This article examines, from a comparative perspective, how Jorge Louis Borges configures his archetypal textual labyrinth in "The Garden of Forking Paths" and to what extent the Chinese avant-gardist Ge Fei is inspired to absorb, concoct and transfigure Borges' aesthetics of maze into his own labyri...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 303 - 330 |
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