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Jorge Luis Borges was profoundly interested in the ill-defined and sh shifting traditions of mysticism. However, previous studies of Borges hav focused on the writer’s close interest in mysticism and mystical texts, esp in the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). This book exam the relationship between Borges’ own recorded mystical experiences an appraisal of Swedenborg and other mystics. It asks the essential questio whether Borges was a mystic by analysing his writings, writings, including short sto essays, poems and interviews, alongside scholarly writings on mysticism figures such as William James. The book locates Borges within the schola of mysticism by evaluating his many assertions and suggestions as to wh or is not a mystic and, in so doing, analyses the influence of James and R Waldo Wa ldo Emerson on Borges’ reading of Swedenborg and mysticism. The au argues further that Swedenborg constitutes a far richer presence in Bo work than scholarship has hitherto acknowledged, and assesses the presen Swedenborg in Borges’ aesthetics, ethics and poetics.
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Jorge Luis Borges was profoundly interested in the ill-defined and sh shifting traditions of mysticism. However, previous studies of Borges hav focused on the writer’s close interest in mysticism and mystical texts, esp in the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). This book exam the relationship between Borges’ own recorded mystical experiences an appraisal of Swedenborg and other mystics. It asks the essential questio whether Borges was a mystic by analysing his writings, writings, including short sto essays, poems and interviews, alongside scholarly writings on mysticism figures such as William James. The book locates Borges within the schola of mysticism by evaluating his many assertions and suggestions as to wh or is not a mystic and, in so doing, analyses the influence of James and R Waldo Wa ldo Emerson on Borges’ reading of Swedenborg and mysticism. The au argues further that Swedenborg constitutes a far richer presence in Bo work than scholarship has hitherto acknowledged, and assesses the presen Swedenborg in Borges’ aesthetics, ethics and poetics.
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Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Rowlandson, William. Borges, Swedenborg and mysticism / William Rowlandson. pages cm. -- (Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas ; 50) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-0343-0811-3 (alk. paper) 1. Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation. 2. Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772--Influence. 3. Mysticism in literature. I. Title. PQ7797.B635Z91635 2013 868’.6209--dc23 2012048394 You're Reading a Preview
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When I was sixteen my Spanish teacher at school, Claire McWilliam lent me a copy of Fictions which still sits on my bookshelf. It is a ���� Joh Calder edition, which I have never seen for sale elsewhere, with a cov illustration of zany zigzag arrows dancing through a labyrinth towar two expressionless eyes. I thank and blame Miss McWilliams for pus ing me down the rabbit hole into the Borges Wonderland, from which have never returned. If we should meet again, I will happily and gratefu return her book. Tanks to the University of Kent for granting me study leave of o semester in order to work on this and other projects. Tanks to Claudio Canaparo, series editor of Peter Lang’s Hispan You're Reading a Preview Studies: Culture and Ideas. Tanks also to Hannah Godfrey, Mary Critchl Unlock full access with a free trial. and Holly Catling at Peter Lang. Downloadfor Withhis Free Trial perspectives on Will My thanks to Jeremy Carrette helpful James, Henry James Sr. and the James family’s relationship with Swedenbo Tanks to Sophia Wellbeloved for her investigation into possible Borg Gurdjieff connections. Tanks also to Patricia Novillo Corvalán for ma corridor chats and email exchanges about Borges and for lending me boo (which I have returned) from her vast library of the Borges scholarship Many of the ideas set forward in this book were discussed in the form Centre for the Study of Myth at the University of Kent. My thanks Sign up to vote on this title those who tolerated my ramblings and who shared ideas Useful their usefuland insigh Not in particular Geoffrey Cornelius, Maggie Hyde, Vered Weiss, Matthe Watkins, Lyndsay Radermacher and Cameron Adams. Additional than
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Every time I read something, that something is changed. And every ti I write something, that something is being changed all the time by ev reader. Every new experience enriches the book. […] People read stories and read many things into them that I have not intended, wh means that I am a writer of stories. A writer who wrote only the thin he intended would be a very poor writer. A writer should write with certain innocence. He shouldn’t think about what he is doing. If n what he does is not all his own poetry. — ������, Borges at Eig
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the work: ‘I have been allowed to talk with some people who lived mo than two thousand years ago, people whose lives are described in histo books and are therefore familiar’ (§���). He repeatedly claims that ‘I c bear witness from all my experiences of what happens in heaven and hell’ (§���), and begins many paragraphs with statements such as ‘Ang have told me that …’ (§���, §���, §���, §���, §���). Swedenborg, it wou appear, was fully aware that his accounts would constitute a challenge to h readership, and, indeed, he famously writes in Arcana Cœlestia: ‘I am w aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits an angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fan others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others w make other objections. But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen have heard, I have felt’ (§��). How is the reader to judge this? What herm neutic tools does the reader employ in order to judge the literary aesthe of Swedenborg’s texts against works of fantasy or voyages of discovery Borges admired Swedenborg and wrote extensively about him; inde You're Reading a Preview the strong presence of Swedenborg in Borges’ work constitutes a curio full access with a free trial. absence in the scholarship.Unlock Following the lead of Ralph Waldo Emerso Borges delivered lectures on Swedenborg Download With Freewhich Trial he later transcribed an published and in which he called Swedenborg ‘un místico mucho complejo que los otros’ (����: ���) [‘a mystic far more complex than t others’] (my translation). In the lecture and in other writings Borges pa close attention to the otherworld journeys of Swedenborg, to his comm nication with angels and demons and with the discarnate souls of the dea Whilst uncomfortable with the theological dimension of Swedenbor writings, arguing that his originality and innovation demonstrateda stro up to vote on this title degree of heterodoxy, Borges greatly admired Sign the ethical aspect of his work Useful Not useful Furthermore, Borges repeatedly defended Swedenborg against charg of insanity, arguing that the man was remarkably lucid, that his accoun
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‘Swedenborg,’ wrote Borges, ‘es el primer explorador del otro mundo, explorador que debemos tomar en serio’ (����: ���) [‘Swedenborg is t first explorer of the other world. An explorer we should take seriousl (my translation). Whilst the reader of Swedenborg is presented with cha lenges to assumptions about life, death, angelic beings and the divine, t reader of Borges’ texts concerning Swedenborg is presented with an equa challenging set of questions concerning the relationship between fact an fiction, realism and fantasy, voyages of discovery and poetry, orthodo and heterodoxy. Expanding this, it becomes clear that all of Borges’ wr ings concerning the ill-defined tradition of mysticism are characterized equally puzzling questions of the nature of the real. I have been reading and encouraging others to read Borges for twen years, and have taught his works, especially the poetry, at university lev for a decade. In a class discussion at the end of a semester’s course, on member of the seminar remarked that the word that best sums up Borg was ‘unsettling.’ We pursued this, enquiring what exactly is unsettling You're Reading a Preview what exactly is unsettled. Her response was curious: ‘Aer reading so m full access with a free trial. Borges nothing is stable anyUnlock more. Tings are unhinged.’ Another stude had suggested that the course ‘is notWith forFree theTrial fainthearted’. Over the wee Download we had followed a more or less chronological assessment of Borges’ tal essays and poems, spending proportionally longer on his later works (��� onwards) than the prolific era of the ����s and ����s, culminating in t whimsical tales of El Hacedor [ Dreamtigers], El Libro de Arena [Te Bo o Sand ] and La Memoria de Shakespeare [Shakespeare’s Memory], the med tative lectures of Siete Noches [ Seven Nights], the poem and prose piec of Elogio de la sombra [ In Praise o Darkness] and Los Conjurados, and t Sign up to vote on this title many interviews. We ref lected on the ‘unsettling’ aspect of Borges. Ho Useful Not useful do things appear ‘unhinged’? Why is the course not for the fainthearte Te class unanimously agreed that not only had the texts been puzzlin
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