story house terror fear

story house terror fear

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Borges, cult author, was a passionate reader of the classical world. In poems and stories featuring characters and motives of Greco-Roman antiquity that are naturally integrated into the complex world of meaning borgiano1. For this article I have selected the `story` The House of Asterion (including in El Aleph, 1949) whose mythological reference is the Minotaur and the Labyrinth cretense2. The text interests me as an example of reinterpretation, and in this sense, a revitalization-old mythological story in contemporary literature through intellectual manipulation. The aim of Borges in `The House of Asterion 'is not true and admiringly recall the myth, but it served to express the search for cognitive problems and disturbing staff beyond the literary, which is essentially contemporary fiction and his own work. Through the proposed account will be allowed me to set the world Inquisitor Borges, and, what interests me most for the present occasion, to see how Borges has been able to extract dimensions of the ancient myth, preexisting, are new and personal. With Borges, indeed, the mythological tale aesthetic or recreational literature, pleasure of fables in the manner of Ovid's Metamorphoses, returns to its mythic sources: fabled myth and metaphysics, that is, explaining the world, what we are and what life, what gods are there, what forces, how we interact with others, from an imaginary world of stories and words that have value and symbolic issue. I remember at the moment what Borges said of Tlön 3: 'The metaphysical Tlön not seek the truth, even the likelihood, looking with amazement. They judge that metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature. 'Literature, then, as a philosophy and philosophy as a game and invention, the only method possible knowledge. `We are all metaphysical writers," said Sartre4 "Because metaphysics is not a sterile debate about abstract notions that are beyond experience, but an effort to cover live inside the human condition in its entirety '.

Asterion held by Borges is nothing but the Minotaur of Crete and the Minotaur mysteries of Ovidian poetic recreation. Asterion is now Borges, Borges harrowingly, creature, or dream you, twice in the mirror, mimetic fiction of his soul, with all its ghosts and personal shortcomings. That is why the story takes the trembling of the intimate and moves us with its truth, confusion of life, why, the labyrinth of solitude. We are not far from the poetic confession. Borges, unable to leave him, at the other, the fictional creature's way of saying his eternal obsessions, human identity, fate, time, paradox, memory, loneliness, death. In `The House of Asterion ', we will see, the fictional narrative and intellectual inquiry, touching the true inner anguish, a fixity own, Borges always inquisitive and astonished at the labyrinth of symbols that is the universe and life .


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