Jorge Luis Borges y el arte narrativo

Abstract

This work reflects on Jorge Luis Borges’ narrative art taking into account his resistance to the novel, particularly the realistic one, and the staging of such resistance in the writing of the short stories, which offers intricate and unlikely plots related to the novel. The short-stories will also stage a review of narrative conventions, such as the narrator’s authority or the character of the plot, the central question in Borges’ narrative theory. This work reflects as well on how Borges gives some ambiguous responses to his precursor, Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the modern philosophy of composition.