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xvi, 204 p. Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cort�azar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cort�azar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cort�azar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sue�no de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cort�azar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception. Nataly Tcherepashenets. Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-197) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986 Criticism and interpretation Cort�azar, Julio Criticism and interpretation Borges, Jorge Luis 1899-1986 Settings Cort�azar, Julio Settings Displacement (Psychology) in literature PQ7797.B635 Z933 2008eb 868/.6209 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10531672 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10531672 CaPaEBR 050822 ebr10531672