La memoria de Borges

In the literature of Jorge Luis Borges there is a philosophical thread that all critics and scholars have searched for and interpreted in order to better understand the work of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. And it is that the Argentine author left clues distributed in all his books for those curious who wanted to delve into them and into his infinite universe. Miguel Antón Moreno is in charge of collecting these clues and reconstructing the settings of Borges' poetics: libraries, mazes, mirrors, felines, clocks and knives. Interweaving the reflections of multiple writers, such as Xenophanes, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, David Hume, Machiavelli, Hegel, Goethe, Kafka, Richard Sennett, Flaubert, Cicero, Ortega y Gasset, Schopenhauer, Foster Wallace, Frege, Ricardo Piglia or Fredric Jameson, we offers a new perspective on the symbols behind his writing and questions us: what is fiction? Thus, in this essay, Borges becomes the focus of concepts that invite us to question some of the problems of our time: fame, the canon, violence, science, dystopias, memory, or oblivion.