O uso narrativo do “infinito” em “El libro de arena” de Jorge Luis Borges

Abstract

This work deals with the relations between language and thought from some writings of Jorge Luis Borges, mainly the short story El Libro de Arena. The debate will be driven from the problematic of the concept of “infinity” as Borges formulates it in the Avatares de la Tortuga essay, as well as the figurations of “infinity” in the fictional space of some of his short stories. To this end, some ideas and some theoretical displacements of thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes -- will be mobilized, as well as the contributions of Borges himself. Finally, this paper tries to reflect on the potentiality of the literary act as a discourse that can respond, albeit obliquely, to the logical-grammaticals dictates of metaphysical thought.