L. A. Murillo
The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges.
Harvard University Press, 1968. First edition. xx/268 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gray cloth,, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, with price of $6.95 on front flap, displays minor wear at edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"In this book, L. A. Murillo reveals how James Joyce and the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges make irony a fundamental structural principle of their fiction. The kinship between the two writers, the author says in the Introduction, lies in their use of irony to impose upon the reader the task of resolving simultaneous but opposed meanings. The works of Joyce and Borges are not compared but are "juxtaposed" in order to illuminate the reasons for their technique of parody and abstruse allusion."