William Rowlandson offers a brief but deep-reaching study of Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges's appreciation of Emanuel Swedenborg, showing the Swedish visionary's influence on Borges's writing.

William Rowlandson is a senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Borges, Swedenborg and Mysticism (Peter Lang, 2013) and has published widely on Latin American cultural and political history.