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Conclusion: Et après?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

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I would like to close my study with an abridged parable by Jorge Luis Borges entitled ‘Borges y Yo’ which, in my opinion, offers a perfect illustration of the difficult enterprise that the whole study has aimed to undertake.

Al otro, a Borges, es a quien le occuren las cosas. Yo camino por Buenos Aires y me demoro, acaso ya mecánicamente, para mirar el arco de un zaguán y la puerta cancel; de Borges tengo noticias por el correo y veo su nombre en una terna de profesores o en un diccionario biográfico. Me gustan los relojes de arena, los mapas, la tipografía del siglo XVIII, el sabor del café y la prosa de Stevenson; el otro comparte esas preferencias, pero de un modo vanidoso que las convierte en atributos de un actor. Sería exagerado afirmar que nuestra relacíon es hostil; yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borges pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica. Nada me cuesta confesar que ha logrado ciertas páginas válidas, pero esas páginas no me pueden salvar, quizá porque lo bueno ya no es de nadie, ni siquiera del otro, sino del lenguaje o la tradicíon. Por lo demás, yo estoy destinado a perderme, definitivamente, y sólo algún instante de mí podrá sobrevivir en el otro. (…) Yo he de quedar en Borges, no en mí (si es que alguien soy), pero me reconozco menos en sus libros que en muchos otros o que en el laborioso rasgueo de una guitarra. (…) Así mi vida es una fuga y todo lo pierdo y todo es del olvido, o del otro.

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Authors on Authors
In Selected Biographical-Novels-About-Writers
, pp. 165 - 168
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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