Structural Legacies in Magical Reality: Borges as A Wandering Teller
Garima Kalita
- Pages
- pp. 5-11
- Published
- October 1, 2011
Garima Kalita (2011). Structural Legacies in Magical Reality: Borges as A Wandering Teller. Labyrinth, 2(4), 5-11.
Abstract
Maybe it is a fact that Jorge Luis Borges is not strictly read as an author affiliating towards magical reality; but the ambience he creates in his fiction, the fantastical element that is introduced thorough the lines make it very much akin to it. It is our contention that he creates that aura through the terse form that he adopts, the suggestion that the simple or ordinary is led to a distance and defamiliarised, so that the conventionality disappears and a newness, a magical reality replaces the authenticity of the real or the suprareal and veracity and untruth. It is our contention that Borges is also a bricoleur who integrates diverse kinds of myth, legend, landscape, community, ritual, magic and psyche together, though Borges never accepts that his is a psychological study
Keywords:Magical RealismDefamiliarizationOstranenieStructuralismSignsSignifierSignifiedBricoleur Narrativityintertextuality


