Borges, Buddhism and World Literature A Morphology of Renunciation Tales /

• Main Author: Jullien, Dominique (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin American literature.; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an asceti...