{"product_id":"borges-buddhism-and-world-literature-9783030047177","title":"Borges, Buddhism and World Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its cross-cultural adaptability and metamorphic nature, and because it resonated so powerfully across philosophy, politics and aesthetics. From the story and its many variants, Borges’s essays formulated a ''morphological'' conception of literature (borrowing the idea from Goethe), whereby a potentially infinite number of stories were generated by transformation of a finite number of ''archetypes''. The king-and-ascetic encounter also tells a powerful political story, setting up a confrontation between power and authority; Borges’s own political predicament is explored against the rich background of truth-telling renouncers. In its poetic variant, the renunciationarchetype morphs into stories about art and artists, with renunciation a key requirement of the creative process: the discussion weaves in and out of Borges to highlight modern writers’ debt to asceticism. Ultimately, the enigmatic appeal of the renunciation story aligns it with the open-endedness of modern parables.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52914835030295,"sku":null,"price":6072.63,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783030047177.jpg?v=1781507738","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/ur\/products\/borges-buddhism-and-world-literature-9783030047177","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}