La busca de Averroes
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"La busca de Averroes" is a short essay by Jorge Luis Borges that imaginatively depicts the philosopher Averroes’s futile attempt to understand the concepts of tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without any direct experience of theater.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalized essay
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ibn Rushd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
misinterpretation of texts
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scholarly commentary ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
epistemological limits
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hermeneutics ⓘ intercultural translation ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Ibn Rushd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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philosophical fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialIntrusion | true ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely studied in Borges scholarship ⓘ |
| hasImaginedHistoricalFigure | Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMetafictionalElement | author comments on his own difficulty in imagining Averroes ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFrame | fictional reconstruction of Averroes’s intellectual struggle ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOn |
difficulties of cross-cultural understanding
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relationship between language and reality ⓘ |
| hasSettingPeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
| hasTitleMeaning | The Search for Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | El Aleph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAbout | Averroes’s attempt to understand tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without knowledge of theater ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | magic realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
self-referential commentary
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third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La busca de Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Averroes struggles to understand Aristotle’s concepts of tragedy and comedy without any direct knowledge of theater. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Editorial Losada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referencesAuthor | Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referencesWork | Poetics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Córdoba
NERFINISHED
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medieval Islamic Spain ⓘ |
| theme |
cultural incommensurability
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failure of knowledge ⓘ limits of understanding ⓘ nature of representation ⓘ translation and interpretation ⓘ |
| workIn | Borgesian canon ⓘ |
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