Borges: „Já, Žid“

• Authors: Housková Anna

Title variants

EN

BORGES: “I, A JEW”

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on Borges’s texts on anti-semitism and on his story „The Secret Miracle“. Borges’s texts from the 1930s and 1940s, starting with the statement „I, the Jew“ (1934), go beyond the immediate reaction to the political situation in Argentina. Borges sees the Jewish tradition (including its hermeneutic method of the kabbalah) as embodiment of the principle of diversity, contrasting with the dangerous mentality of the admirers of nazism.

Keywords

CS

Borges a židovská kultura; antisemitismus; nacismus v Argentině; „Tajný zázrak“

EN

Borges and Jewish culture; anti-semitism; nazism in Argentina; „The Secret Miracle“

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 57
• Pages: 139-146

Contributors

author

Housková Anna

• Univerzita Karlova