Borges y la tradición metafórica
ISSN: 0212-4130
Year of publication: 2002
Issue: 20
Pages: 121-134
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
Abstract
In 1945 Borges stated that to speak was to metaphorize and all his life he strove —through his creative works, his critical writings, his academic and extra-academic public appearances— to demonstrate to his readers that there is no difference between literal and figurative language: in both cases they are merely vain attempts to render into words an ever inaccessible reality. His point o view was set within a cultural tradition which was initiated with Cicero and reaches down to our own days.