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(2018) Borges, language and reality, Dordrecht, Springer.
This is a study of a parenthetical in one of Borges's essays, "The Metaphor," included in the book This Craft of Verse. It must begin by stating that in Borges one never quite knows which is the parenthetical and which is not, just as one seemingly is never sure of which is the story and which is the dream. The reader cannot be quite sure if it actually is a parenthetical—it might, in fact, be an aside. But, even if it were a parenthetical and not an aside, it wouldn't be a real parenthetical, for the essay in question is not in fact a real essay after all, but a made-up one, conjured years later from the hidden memories of some recorded words.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95912-2_6
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Ben-Merre, D. (2018)., Meetings of anger: Borges on metaphor, in A. J. García-Osuna (ed.), Borges, language and reality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 77-85.
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