Cynthia Stephens (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: “Borges, De Quincey and the Interpretation of Words,” in Romance Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4, November, 1992, pp. 481-87.
[In the following essay, Stephens examines Borges's debt to De Quincey.]
In his piece on De Quincey in his Introducción a la literatura inglesa, Borges compares De Quincey to Sir Thomas Browne,1 and in the epigraph to his collection “Evaristo Carriego,” he quotes from De Quincey “… a mode of truth, not of truth coherent and central, but angular and...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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