BORGES AND MYTH OF ETERNAL RETURN

Abstract

The article reveals the dynamics of philosophical conception understanding related to the myth of eternal return in the works of the second half of the 1930s – the beginning of the 1940s written by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The tendency to the literal (up to mathematical) interpretations of the myth, followed by denial, is traced in early attempts to describe it. Later, however, Borges found a different point of view on this mythological conception, recognizing it rather as an archetype, and embedded it in his very subjectively picture of the world understanding. The article draws on sources that have not been translated earlier in the Russian language.

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• Published: November 12, 2013.

Keywords

• Борхес
• миф о вечном возвращении
• архетип
• учение о циклах
• латиноамериканская литература
• Borges
• myth of eternal return
• archetype
• doctrine of cycles
• Latin American literature

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