La democracia en Babilonia: sorteo y literatura en Borges y Rancière: La democracia de Babilonia: Sorteo y literatura en Borges y Rancière

Jordi Camona Hurtado

doi:10.30827/tn.v4i2.21065

Democracy in Babylon: Sortition and literature in Borges and Rancière

Democracy in Babylon: Sortition and Literature in Borges and Rancière

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Jordi Camona Hurtado Profesor de Estética y Teoría del Arte - Universidad de Granada

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https://doi.org/10.30827/tn.v4i2.21065

Abstract

This paper consists mainly in a reading of Borges' story "The Lottery in Babylon", and interprets it as an allegorical satire of democracy that nonetheless points in an extremely acurated way to the heart of the matter: the sortition. From this reading, we show the relationship between the Borgian theory of fiction and its general judgment on politics. Rancière's vindication, similar and contradictory, of sortition as the genuinely democratic institution, reveals as contrast an alternative idea of both politics and literature.

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2021-07-30

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Camona Hurtado, J. (2021). Democracy in Babylon: Sortition and literature in Borges and Rancière: Democracy in Babylon: Sortition and Literature in Borges and Rancière. Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought, 4(2), 95–110. https://doi.org/10.30827/tn.v4i2.21065

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021)

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Simultaneidades

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