Aesthetics, Politics and Event: Borges's “El fin,” the Argentine Tradition and Death Available to Purchase

PATRICK DOVE is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research explores intersections between literature, philosophy, and politics in Latin America. He is author of The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature (Bucknell University Press, 2004) and is currently completing his second book, Literature and Interregnum, an exploration of literary responses to the crisis of esthetic and political modernity in recent Southern Cone narrative. He has also written on Peronism, political violence, and dictatorship and memory, among other topics.