The first work is a rev. and considerably augmented version of the author's thesis (Ecole des hautes �etudes, Paris) originally presented under the title: Une rh�etorique du silence; another version in Spanish was published under the title: Una r�etorica del silencio (1984); several of the selected writings were also published in Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A rhetoric of silence -- Borges and the invention of the name -- Finland-bound (on the way to Finland) -- The miracle of the roses and Borges' ultrarealism -- Between two languages : Jules Laforgue, a Uruguayan "figure" -- Anaphoric imagination in cinema : an approach to Fellini's Intervista -- Symbols as pass-words between spaces and species -- Narration under discussion : a question of angels, men, nouns, and pronouns -- The paradoxes of paradoxes.

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