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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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana |
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| Online Access: | http://catedraltomada.pitt.edu/ojs/catedraltomada/article/view/592 |