Borges, Language and Reality: The Transcendence of the Word
Alfonso J. García-Osuna, "Borges, Language and Reality: The Transcendence of the Word "
English | ISBN: 3319959115 | 2018 | 157 pages | EPUB, PDF | 907 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3319959115 | 2018 | 157 pages | EPUB, PDF | 907 KB + 2 MB
This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges` complex relationship with language and reality. A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, `a genuine effort to overcome the narrowness that Western tradition has imposed as a master and measure of reality` in Borges` writing. That narrowness is in large measure a consequence of the chronic influence of positivist approaches to reality that rely on empirical evidence for any authentication of what is `real`. This study shows that, in opposition to such restrictions, Borges saw in fiction, in literature, the most viable means of discussing reality in a pragmatic manner. Moreover, by scrutinising several of the author`s works, it establishes signposts for considering the truly complicated relationship that Borges had with reality, one that intimately associates the `real` with human perception, insight and language.