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18 juillet 2023
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- isbn: 9780197535301
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- doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197535271.013.15
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Dardo Scavino, « Borges: The Middle Essays and Reviews », HAL-SHS : philosophie, ID : 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197535271.013.15
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Jorge Luis Borges’s essays revolve around three concepts he adopted in the early 1930s and continued to use until his final days, through under a variety of names: figuration, prefiguration, and transfiguration. At times he called them superstition, omen, and echo; other times modesty, precursor, and repetition. In the essays of Other Inquisitions and in other later texts, this trilogy would gradually assume a metaphysical status resulting from an ever-widening understanding of writing, which, according to Borges, is a part of the world but is also its totality. Time, memory, and personal and universal history would become dimensions of writing: anything that figures among the things of the world is, in fact, a thing—a discreet transfiguration of something that has already happened and an enigmatic prefiguration of something yet to come. Este artículo aborda tres conceptos de los ensayos de Jorge Luis Borges a partir de los años treinta: la figuración, la prefiguración y la transfiguración. A partir de Otras inquisiciones, y otros textos de la madurez, esa trilogía fue asumiendo un estatuto metafísico. Cualquier cosa que pueble este mundo tiene para Borges un estatuto de figura, transfiguración de algo que sucedió y prefiguración de algo que sucederá.