El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia
The image of Uruguay in Jorge Luis Borges’s works expresses itself in tenuous shades. The writer oscillates between a tendency to erase and a tendency to emphasize differences between the two banks of the Plata river. Shades fade when Borges defines the criollo element (in his essays) and when he re...
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| description | The image of Uruguay in Jorge Luis Borges’s works expresses itself in tenuous shades. The writer oscillates between a tendency to erase and a tendency to emphasize differences between the two banks of the Plata river. Shades fade when Borges defines the criollo element (in his essays) and when he rewrites (in his short stories) the history of the period during which Argentine and Uruguayan nation-states emerged by and through warfare. Shades between the two banks of the Plata river reappear, in contrast, in many other texts. The eastern bank becomes then a more dramatic, more basic and braver country than Argentina, a place where time passes more slowly, a space for quiet wonder, or a border where all kinds of traitors can certainly find a place of refuge, but a place that will turn out to be as precarious as dangerous. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0e92e9f6813e4c0db81d69b47d40fa212025-01-10T13:08:32ZspaRéseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la PlataCuadernos LIRICO2262-83392013-01-01810.4000/lirico.907El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distanciaGraciela VillanuevaThe image of Uruguay in Jorge Luis Borges’s works expresses itself in tenuous shades. The writer oscillates between a tendency to erase and a tendency to emphasize differences between the two banks of the Plata river. Shades fade when Borges defines the criollo element (in his essays) and when he rewrites (in his short stories) the history of the period during which Argentine and Uruguayan nation-states emerged by and through warfare. Shades between the two banks of the Plata river reappear, in contrast, in many other texts. The eastern bank becomes then a more dramatic, more basic and braver country than Argentina, a place where time passes more slowly, a space for quiet wonder, or a border where all kinds of traitors can certainly find a place of refuge, but a place that will turn out to be as precarious as dangerous.https://journals.openedition.org/lirico/907BorgesimageUruguayArgentinacriollo elementborder |
| spellingShingle | Graciela Villanueva El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia Cuadernos LIRICO Borges image Uruguay Argentina criollo element border |
| title | El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia |
| title_full | El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia |
| title_fullStr | El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia |
| title_full_unstemmed | El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia |
| title_short | El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia |
| title_sort | el uruguay de borges un justo vaiven de la aproximacion y de la distancia |
| topic | Borges image Uruguay Argentina criollo element border |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/lirico/907 |
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