Hráč, spáč, stvořitel, vypravěč Borgesovo dílo pohledem (romantické) ironie // THE PLAYER, THE SLEEPER, THE CREATOR, THE NARRATOR. The work of Jorge Luis Borges from the perspective of romantic irony

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Vít Kazmar¹ 

[1] Univerzita Karlova;

关键词: Jorge L. Borges;    romantická ironie;    parabasis;    chaos;    možnost;    romantic irony;    possibility;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article tries to offer a reading of Borges’ fiction through the theory of romantic irony. First,it briefly outlines the “history of irony”, beginning with the approach of Plato’s Socrates, continuingwith the late antiquity and its mostly rhetorical interpretation of irony as a means of expressinga thought through its opposite. The real focus of the article is the romantic irony, inparticular the views of Friedrich Schlegel, who was one of the chief theoreticians of German romanticism.The reading of Borges’ short stories is attempted, the point of departure being twoShekel’s fragments that offer contrasting and complementary possibilities of interpretation.The first explains romantic irony in the context of the notion of chaos and possibility, the seconddraws on the concept of parabasis, known from the theory of Ancient Greek drama. Thefirst interpretation tries to show Borges’ poetics as a poetics of possibility; the short story Libraryof Babel serves as an example. The second interpretation shows how the motives of wakingup, creation and game can all be connected through the concept of parabasis and shows agroup of Borges’ text, including some poems, that can be considered ironic in this special sense.

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