Two Types of Autism in Borges by Adam Feinstein

Come join the King's AHRI Centre for Humanities & Health first seminar of 2020 on Borges and autism.

Following his presentation with Jorge Luis Borges' widow, María Kodama, in Argentina last year, in this talk the autism historian and researcher, poet and film critic, Adam Feinstein, will discuss his hypothesis that Borges - in his 1944 story Funes el Memorioso - was depicting not just one but two types of autism, without realising the precise nature of the condition he was describing  Feinstein will then analyse other possible early portrayals of autism in literature, as well as the representations and mis-representations of autism in the cinema.