Unoriginal Opinions of an Original Man: Jorge Luis Borges’s Views on Race and Brazilian People in His Conversations with Adolfo Bioy Casares and His Literary Works

This article analyzes Jorge Luis Borges’s views on race, as he expressed them in personal conversations with Adolfo Bioy Casares and vis-à-vis his fiction. In the conversations recorded by Bioy Casares, Borges emerges as a man of his time and his social class in the worst sense possible: racism, big...

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Main Author: Marcelo Mendes de Souza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-09-01
Series:Latin American Research Review
Online Access:https://larrlasa.org/articles/1073