Double maze in La escritura del dios: the mith and the time in the short story of Jorge Luís Borges
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Double maze, myth, time, story, history.Abstract
One of the most expressive literary writer of Latin America in the twentieth century, Jorge Luís Borges offers to the reader of the short story La Escritura del Dios a labyrinthine writing that rescues myths and sacred elements, developed by a fictional thread caught between history and the fantastic. Supported by Ricardo Piglia's theory about the double character of short stories, this paper aims to analyze the short story La Escritura del dios, having as foundation the thesis that every short story tells two stories - one more on the surface of the text, and another more reclusive. We will observe the performance and fictionalization of the myths and history of Mayan civilization, operated by the Argentine writer, trying to trace the structural tournaments, while pointing out the trajectories of each “story” within the tale, pointing to signs of crossing and revelation between the stories. Thus, we affirm that the short story theory, emphasized in our work by Piglia, helps us to understand the narrative paths of the work, but we do not lose sight of the fact that Borges's work cheats the theoretical systematization by using, in particular, the potentiality sign of myth.
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