that continues the XIX century with universal texts
How to write literature in a culturally peripheral nation?
In Borges, tension between: a) local dimension
b) philosophic subjects, British literature, system of quotations, encyclopedias, symbols, Nordic mythologies and Cabala.
meshes the great Western and Eastern traditions, intersecting them in the regional space of Buenos Aires.
BORGES CREATES AN AESTHETIC OF THE MARGIN
WRITING BASED ON READING. All literature is one text
“One literature differs from another, prior or posterior, less because of the text than because of the way in which it is read…” (“A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw”)