Dr William Rowlandson from the Department of Hispanic Studies has published a new book entitled Imaginal Landscapes: Reflections on the Mystical Visions of Jorge Luis Borges and Emanuel Swedenborg (The Swedenborg Society, 2015).
In 1978 the great Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges described Swedenborg as the most extraordinary man in recorded history. In Imaginal Landscapes, William Rowlandson offers a brief but deep-reaching study of this often unknown appreciation, showing how the Swedish visionary’s influence has gone a long way to explain Borges’s preoccupations with parallel existences, the infinite, and the mystery of language. Delightfully written, and steeped in a wonderful sense of curiosity, Imaginal Landscapes cements Rowlandson’s position as one of the UK’s leading scholars on Borges, and raises important questions about the criteria we often use to assess the lives and works of those thinkers and writers who have come to be labelled as mystics.
William will launch his new book at the Swedenborg Society in London on Thursday 19 March 2015. Further details of the book launch can be found at www.swedenborg.org.uk/home
For more details on the book please see the publisher’s webpage at: www.swedenborg.org.uk/bookshop/new_releases/imaginal_landscapes