Entre Laputa y los Yahoos: Jorge Luis Borges lee a Jonathan Swift

• Authors: Ewa K Kulak

Title variants

EN

BETWEEN LAPUTA AND THE YAHOOS: JORGE LUIS BORGES READS JONATHAN SWIFT

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present paper is to study the influence of Gulliver’s Travels on Jorge Luis Borges’ works. It concentrates specifically on the third and fourth travels, which Borges considered as the most interesting. In the interpretation of a 20th-century writer, Swift’s satire becomes a pretext to express anxiety concerning the human nature and the destiny of our civilization, and to develop a series of thoughts on sciences and philosophy.

Keywords

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INTERTEXTUALITY; JORGE LUIS BORGES; JONATHAN SWIFT; GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Estudios Hispánicos
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 87-97

Contributors

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Ewa K Kulak