Borges, Tlön and the Third Tiger: Towards a Poetics of Experience
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2015-04
Authors
Abreu Mendoza, Carlos
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Abstract
Readers tend to think of Jorge Luis Borges as a writer of abstractions and obscure cultural references, the inventor of imaginary planets and infinite libraries. However, a great deal of Borges’s work is rooted in an empathetic and concrete understanding of the world. This paper analyses The Maker, a 1960 collection of texts that marks Borges’s rediscovery of the human experience as the source of poetic inspiration.
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The Maker, poetics of experience, human experience, Borges, Jorge Luis, World Languages and Literatures
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Abreu Mendoza, C. (2015). Borges, Tlön and the Third Tiger: Towards a Poetics of Experience. Readings, 1(1), pp. 1-6.