Abstract

TORRES ESTRADA, Andrés Camilo. In spite of the wall and the books. Hallazgos [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.24, pp.125-137. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2015.0024.07.

This text analyzes the interpretation of history and politics in the essay "The Wall and the Books" by Jorge Luis Borges. From a historical fact, Borges begins a disquisition with a methodology very close to the Nieteschean interpretatión of history and his genealogial aproach, contained in more recent years by Michel Foucault. This trial by Borges is not a historical experiment, but an aesthetic and politic exercise that connects it to the contemporary proposal of Jacques Rancière in the aesthetic regime of the arts. The trial results in a proposal to intuit, configure and know reality from an aesthetic point of view.

Keywords : Borges; history; literature and politics; aesthetics.

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