Games of Inheritance

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YITZHAK LEWIS is an assistant professor of humanities at Duke Kunshan University, China. He is the author of A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity.

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This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. The book explores central themes in Borges' engagement with "the Judaic," contextualizing them within his contemporary Argentine debates about nationalism and literature, postcolonialism and aesthetics.