The texture of the world: Borgean uses of Schopenhauer

Abstract

This article aims to develop the implications of the reading made by Jorge Luis Borges of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The Argentinian writer, as we will propose, directs a very particular reading operation towards the previously mentioned philosopher, by using Schopenhauerian concepts not only in his own poetics and narrative writings aswell as in his essays, but also in his own construction of himself as an intellectual persona. The implications of this appropriation constitute, therefore, a fundamental aspect of his work that has not yet been sufficiently developed to date.