Borges and the Judaism

Authors

  • Leonor Scliar-Cabral Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.12.23.71-87

Keywords:

Judaism, Poetry, Jorge Luis Borges

Abstract

This article analyzes the Jewish presence in some poems of Jorge Luis Borges. This presence transpires not only in the explicit inspirations of several of his poems: “Spinoza”, “Paris, 1856”, dedicated to Heinrich Heine, in which Borges refers to the destiny of being a man and being Jewish, as in “Rafael Cansinos-Asséns”, but above all by the cosmogony reflected in the structure, by the thematic and the cut-off method of the Kabbalah.

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Author Biography

  • Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Doutora em Linguística pela Universidade de São Paulo, Professora Emérita pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, poeta e tradutora.

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Published

2018-11-28

How to Cite

Borges and the Judaism. (2018). Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 12(23), 71-87. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.12.23.71-87