ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Daniel Nahson, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the SUNY College at Oneonta, is the author of the book La crítica del mito: Borges y la literatura como sueño de vida (Borges and the Critique of Myth), which was released recently by Iberoamericana/Vervuert publishers.

Dr. Nahson’s work describes how nineteenth-century Latin American literature converges on the poetry, narrative, and criticism of Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges and how twentieth-century Latin American literature emerges transformed in decisive ways from the literary creations of Borges. In his book, Dr. Nahson examines aspects of Borges’ work which are central to the understanding of his literary achievement but which have not been the object of substantial critical investigation.

With in-depth command of the sources and adopting multiple critical perspectives, Dr. Nahson analyzes in Borges and the Critique of Myth the allusive rewriting of myth, the literary sublimation of desire, and the Romantic valuation of the irrational and the divine in the poetry and narrative of an author that has transformed world literature.

Daniel Nahson, who has taught at SUNY Oneonta since 2008, holds a doctorate in Spanish Literature from Columbia University. He taught previously at the University of Texas, Emory University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Williams College, and Columbia University.

He is also the author of the book Amor sensual por el cielo. La ‘Exposición del Cantar de los Cantares’ de Fray Luis de León, which was published by Iberoamericana/Vervuert in 2006.

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