Fiction in Pain: Mourning and Melancholia in Borges’s Emma Zunz and El Aleph

In this article, I analyze the representation of mourning and melancholia in Jorge Luis Borges’s “Emma Zunz” and “El Aleph.” First, I propose a reconceptualization of mourning and melancholia. Starting from Freud’s premises, I rethink both concepts to argue that mourning is a social activity anchor...

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Main Author: Félix Joaquín Galván-Díaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2023-07-01
Series:Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana
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Online Access:http://catedraltomada.pitt.edu/ojs/catedraltomada/article/view/592