Description: Situates the works of Borges within the contexts of family and culture, Argentine and world history, and reception and afterlife.
Brief description: Robin Fiddian is Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford and the author of eight books and over fifty articles. The majority of his publications are on topics in Spanish American literature, including the novels of Fernando del Paso (2000) and the short fictions of Gabriel García Márquez (2007). His most recent book is Postcolonial Borges: Argument and Artistry (2017).
Review Quotes: '... this is an excellent, up-to-date study of the masterful Argentine writer.' J. S. Bottaro, Choice