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- Title
APPROACHING A SACRED CENTER: NARRATIVES OF ORIGIN AND IDENTITY IN THE LATE FICTION OF JORGE LUIS BORGES.
- Authors
Goldsmith, J. Nathaniel
- Abstract
The article presents information on the works of Jorge Luis Borges. In one of Jorge Luis Borges's most famous stories, "La muerte y Ia brújula," Erik Lönnrot, the overzealous and reader like detective finds himself caught in a labynnthine fiction meticulously designed and executed by his archenemy, Red Scharlach. According to Paul De Man, Borges's stories are about the style in which they are written and so much attention should be given on how La muerte y Ia brújula participates in this self-referential tendency. Scharlach, the designer of an elaborate hoax, a labyrinthine fiction used to operates as a mask for Borges, the writer; the beguiled Lönnrot, who unsuccessfully tried to decipher the symbols which mark this fiction, functions as the textualized reader.
- Subjects
BORGES, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; FICTION; DE Man, Paul, 1919-1983; DESIGN; STYLE (Philosophy); SIGNS &; symbols
- Publication
Hispanófila, 2003, Issue 137, p83
- ISSN
0018-2206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism