On traitors and heroes: metafictional reflections in a story by Jorge Luis Borges

 This article contemplates that the story “The theme of the traitor and the hero” by Jorge Luis Borges is a fictional text, since it develops the relationship between reality and fiction, and also, it ponders its own fictional nature. Based on this premise, and taking into account the ideas about ar...

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Autor: Trujillo Carrasco, Hagi Harol
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/24474
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/tesis/article/view/24474
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Jorge Luis Borges
narrativa hispanoamericana
análisis
narratología
metaficción
Hispanic American Narrative
analysis
narratology
metafiction
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Sumario: This article contemplates that the story “The theme of the traitor and the hero” by Jorge Luis Borges is a fictional text, since it develops the relationship between reality and fiction, and also, it ponders its own fictional nature. Based on this premise, and taking into account the ideas about art exposed by Oscar Wilde in his essay The decay of lying, an analysis will be carried out. This analysis has an immanent nature and it will focus on the narrative and discursive structures (concepts exposed in the hermeneutical model of Carlos García-Bedoya), using the concepts of plot and fable, narrator, spatialization and temporality. This analysis intends to prove that these syntactic components of the text are specifically related to its metafictional reflection.