Undergraduate thesis researches the theme of infinity and her symbols in Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. For analisis uses short stories Aleph (Aleph 1949), The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel 1941), The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941).
Borges explored in a very interesting way the themes of infinity and eternity throughout his entire opus so much that he was named »the writer of infinity«. The most typical symbols that we can relate to the concept of infinity in his work are mirrors, dreams, labyrinths and books. In Aleph the infinity is shown as a dot that includes all universe including this particular dot, which makes it and the universe infinite. In The Library of Babel we are met with a library (metaphor for the world) that is unlimited and cyclic and with that infinite. The Garden of Forking Paths is a time labyrinth in which the time is eternal, plural, able to divide and fork. Infinity is used by the author to convince the reader that nothing is real, that we are living in an infinite universe that has no transcendent sense. In all three stories mentioned Borges creates literary (infinite) labyrinth with which he implies on the importance of literature that is, in a world with no sense, the only sense and in which the author has a power of God.
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