Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
104,3 (2014) 339-353
Keywords:
Borges, Jorge Luis,
;
National socialism in literature
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
Argues that the Jewish topic was vital in Borges' formation as a writer from 1920 on. Borges was a contemporary of the Nazi takeover in Germany and of World War II; being an anti-Nazi, he put up his critical voice against Nazism and its Argentinian sympathyzers, in particular, against Nazi antisemitism. Borges regarded Nazism as an assault against the Western civilization. What he termed "lo hebreo" provided him with the potential for resistance; to vindicate the "Jewish spirit", one of the foundations of the Western civilization, was a strategy of opposition. A number of Borges' essays and short stories are devoted to this goal.
DOI:
10.1353/jqr.2014.0028
URL:
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