Jorge Luis Borges and World Wars
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i21.8104Keywords:
Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Menard, Ludendorff, Nazism, nationalism.Abstract
Far from throwing history overboard with his fantastic stories and philosophical abstractions, Borges used them to offer ideas beyond the possibilities of mere realism. This article demonstrates how there is no contradiction between Borges’ approach to fantastic literature and the lessons that can be learned from the mechanisms with which he did everything possible to avoid the prejudices of nationalism and xenophobia in the construction of his literary world.
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