La reescritura y la apropiación del discurso en el Manual de zoología fantástica

Abstract

In the Manual de zoología fantástica, Jorge Luis Borges displayed a wide relation of historical, literary, sacred, philosophical, and mythological sources, both from east and West. Beforethe natural consideration of identifying such catalog as the product of a collective imagination, Borges, nevertheless, was capable to pervade it with his peculiar style through passages, subjectsand recurrent obsessions. This article reveals that, for Borges, a text that is repeated is susceptibleto become in a different text, that the rewriting evolves in creation, and that the work of others maytransform in the germ of a personal and intimate representation.