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At Macedonio Fernández’s funeral in 1952, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the following elegy: “In those years I imitated him to the point of transcription, to the point of devout and passionate plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, Macedonio is literature.” This is the first book available in English that collects essays by the world’s leading scholars on Macedonio Fernández, one of Borges’s most important mentors and a still enigmatic thinker of the early 20th century. Macedonio's philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and experimental writing laid the foundations for Borges’s own theoretical and literary matrix. Nonetheless, Borges helped shape a myth of Macedonio as a thinker who could not translate his oratorial geniality into written intelligibility. So, despite the centrality of Macedonio to Borges’s thought, his work has remained almost unknown to English-speaking readers. Contributors to this volume demonstrate, however, that this myth reduces the complexities of Macedonio’s life and creative process, as each chapter shines new light on his texts. Conceived as both a companion for new readers of Macedonio’s writings and an invitation for specialists to revisit his work through new perspectives, essays in this volume provide extensive background and bibliographical references, as well as English translations of Macedonio’s original texts. This collection seeks to serve as a catalyst for the continued discovery and rediscovery of Macedonio Fernández’s texts and the ways they might help us to rediscover the singularities of our own present moment.

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Author:   Dr. Federico Fridman (Lecturer, University of Michigan, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781501384226

ISBN 10:   1501384228
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   13 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Federico Fridman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Part 1. Life and Literature at the Edge 1. Jorge Luis Borges and Macedonio Fernandez: History of a Literary Friendship Monica Bueno, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina 2. Heroes without Selves: Macedonio Fernandez and a New Ethics of the Heroic Todd S. Garth, U.S. Naval Academy, USA 3. Consuelo-Eterna, Macedonio's Erotic and Metaphysical Passion Ana Camblong, University of Misiones, Argentina 4. Macedonio Fernandez's Neighborhood Metaphysics: Belarte, the Fool of Buenos Aires, and the Evidential Siesta Gonzalo S. Aguirre, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Part 2. Philosophy, Affects, and Politics 5. Macedonio Fernandez: The First Egocide in the Rio de la Plata Diego Vecchio, University of Paris VIII, France 6. A Metaphysics That Only Begins: On Macedonio's Writing Passion Julio Prieto, Universitat Potsdam, Germany 7. Songs without a Self: Macedonio's Anarchist Aesthetics Luis Othoniel Rosa, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA 8. The Thought of Macedonio Fernandez: A Dictionary Daniel Attala, University of Southern Brittany, France Part 3. Metaphysics on the Move 9. Notes on Macedonio in a Diary Ricardo Piglia, Princeton University, USA 10. What Is Believing? Horacio Gonzalez, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 11. No hay Proa sin Popa (There Is No Bow without the Stern) Liliana Weinberg, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Reviews

This volume brings together the essays of upcoming Latin Americanists and established figures of Argentine culture in order to celebrate Macedonio Fernandez and reintroduce him to readers of English. It is a treat here to ponder Macedonio's radical avant-garde presence in the culture of the 1920s and 30s and to enter his world of philosophical fictions where he disrupts all realist epistemologies and shakes the bases of literary genre. * Francine Masiello, Ancker Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emerita, University of California at Berkeley, USA * Macedonio was a great Argentinian writer whose literature/philosophy encourages others to write. This volume explores the dialogues and conversations provoked by his writing and it also places him at the crossroads of global modernity. * Graciela Montaldo, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Columbia University, USA *

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Federico Fridman is Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Michigan, USA.

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