ABSTRACT
James Joyce's legacy in the twenty-first century emerges as a global, multilingual, and pluralistic cultural paradigm which is constantly pointing towards new directions. His revolutionary aesthetic, exploration of the human body, painstaking depiction of the city of Dublin, unprecedented linguistic experimentation rewriting of Western discourses, and his iconic image as a self-imposed exile have exerted a powerful influence in a great variety of cultural spheres worldwide. A book-length investigation documenting and analysing the complex interactions between Ireland and Argentina, including the cultural effects of the Irish Diaspora, the construction and dissemination of Ireland in the Argentine imagination, and the ongoing dialogue between Irish and Argentine writers, would indeed offer the appropriate sequel to a study of Jorge Luis Borges and Joyce. On the whole, the legacy of Borges's reception of Joyce has been crystallized in the development of a particular line of Argentine literature.
