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Frisch (Duquesne Univ.) treads the divide between monism and chaos to explore the metaphor of the labyrinth as the key to Borges’s leadership among the postmoderns. To do so he zeroes in on the Argentine’s distinctive Latin American pluralism to offer informed discussions of self, love, history, feminism, politics, and contemporary literature throughout the Americas in a chapter apiece. What emerges is Borges’s perverse joy in “double speak” – relies too heavily on the interviews recorded in the last stage of the writer’s life, even though such material must be considered, if only to ignore it judiciously. Needy scholars will turn eagerly to the very complete bibliography and make good use of Frisch’s painstaking comptes rendus of work by the leading postmodern gurus. Borgesian scholarship is already immense and the dust will soon settle here: Borges’s artful writing is at once ahead and outside of vogue literary criticism and the distance to there from here is very short. Summing up : Optional. Graduate students and faculty.