Macedonio Fernández: Between Literature, Philosophy, and the Avant-Garde

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8426-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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 Fernández: History of a Literary Friendship
Mónica Bueno, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina
2. Heroes without Selves: Macedonio Fernández 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 Fernández’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 Fernández: The First Egocide in the Río de la Plata
Diego Vecchio, University of Paris VIII, France
6. A Metaphysics That Only Begins: On Macedonio’s Writing Passion
Julio Prieto, Universität Potsdam, Germany
7. Songs Without a Self: Macedonio’s Anarchist Aesthetics
Luis Othoniel Rosa, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
8. The Thought of Macedonio Fernández: 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 González, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
11. No hay proa sin popa
Liliana Weinberg, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
ISBN-10	1-5013-8426-0 / 1501384260
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8426-4 / 9781501384264
Zustand	Neuware