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Seeker asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

What specific influences by Edgar Allan Poe can be found in the works of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges

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    1 decade ago
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    In "Conversations" Borges states as a young man he read and admired Poe.

    if you have an Amazon account you can do keyword searches inside many of the titles by clicking on 'Search inside this book' underneath the picture of the cover

    http://www.amazon.com/Jorge-Luis-Borges-Conversati...

    "Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges was a great admirer of Poe's works and translated his stories into Spanish. Many of the characters from Borges' stories are borrowed directly from Poe's stories, and in many of his stories Poe is mentioned by name. Another Argentinian author, Julio Cortázar, translated Poe's complete fiction and essays into Spanish."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

    if you can find the following you might find them useful

    Borges, Hawthorne, and Poe: A study of significant parallels in their theories and methods of short story writing by Patricia Teague Fulton

    http://www.amazon.com/Borges-Hawthorne-Poe-signifi...

    The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by John T. Irwin

    http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Solution-Borges-Anal...

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