Tcherepashenets (Spanish, Empire State College) analyzes two of the most prominent authors in Romance languages by using place and displacement as heuristic devices. In addition, she locates the "place" of Borges's texts with Cortázar's fiction and shows new and interesting links between different literary traditions and elements of philosophy and anthropology. She traces the role of place in works by Borges, including its illusions of power and images of human vulnerability, then contrasts her findings with those on the role of displacement in Cortázar, with a very interesting passage on Borge's voice within Buenos Aires. She considers the convergence of fictional and real places in exotic and ordinary settings, analyzes the role of dreams in Borges's essays, and delineates the role of the divided self in Cortázar's stories. As she works she builds toward a Latin American take on literary place. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)