The Quest for God in the Work of Borges (Continuum Literary Studies) by Annette U. Flynn (PDF)

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This book argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges. This is shown through careful analysis both of his essays, with their emphasis on his philosophical-theological explorations, and of the narrative articulations which are his stories. It is in the poetry of his middle and closing years, however, that Borges’ search is most manifest, as it is no longer obscured. Spanning different periods of his life, and different literary genres, Borges’ work attests to a maturing and evolving quest. The book reveals Borges’ engagement as an active and evolving process and its chronological structure allows the reader to trace his thought over time. Flynn shows that the spiritual component in Borges’ writing drives key texts from the 1920s to the 1980s. Offering an interpretation that unlocks a fuller significance of his work, she shows how Borges’ reflections on time and identity are symptomatic of a deeper, spiritual searching which can only be answered by a Divine Absolute.

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⭐Although it’s an academic study, requiring at least a basic knowledge of Spanish for the quotations, Annette Flynn’s The Quest for God in the Work of Borges (Continuum: London, 2009) was my most amazing book of the year. Why? Because, although Borges’ writing is full of philosophical reflections on time and eternity, and shows his acquaintance with all the major religions, it took Dr Flynn’s book to show clearly how an exciting if muted quest for God underlay his work, particularly in his later years. I liked the unhurried way Flynn develops her reading of Borges, showing his interest in mysticism from his earliest years. Then Flynn shows how in the stories of his middle years, Borges wrestled with the `wrong’ God. Finally, in the third section of her book, called ‘The Long Quest,’ Flynn explores Borges in his late poems seeking the face of Christ. One of his last poems, `Christ on the Cross,’ has him identifying Christ with the Good Thief, part of his own desire to be nearer to Christ–in a way that Flynn shows is quite orthodox in terms of the One who experiences our forsakenness with us. Flynn comments: `It is as if he can see a crack of light under a door but is struggling to find a way of opening it.’ She finds that the passionate sincerity of his quest was as important to Borges as his arrival. Her final words convey the constant tension of his quest: `this [arrival] is all the more extraordinary because an ultimate resolution did not come to him easily.’

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