Poetics of a Demiurge

Abstract

This article tries to analyze, in the work of Jorge Luis Borges, a kind of obsession the subject of man as demiurge, as well as other foundations of Jewish mysticism. Just by giving a brief look at some of his emblematic works, both poetry and narrative and essays, we find this constant concern. The stories “La biblioteca de Babel”, “Funes el memorioso”, “El Aleph” and “Las ruinas circulares”; the poems “La cifra”, “El hacedor”, “The Thing I Am” and “El Golem”; and of course, the essay written for one of the Siete noches on Kabbalah, gives a good clue to the way in which these themes permeate all the work of Borges.