Borges y yo

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"Borges y yo" is a brief, metafictional prose piece by Jorge Luis Borges that meditates on the split between his public literary persona and his private self.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf metafictional work
prose piece
short story
author Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED
centralConflict division between the writer Borges and the private self
contains paradox about identity
reflection on the name Borges
self-referential commentary
countryOfOrigin Argentina NERFINISHED
criticalReception widely acclaimed
discusses how the public Borges appropriates the private experiences of the narrator
relationship between author and work
focusesOn split between public literary persona and private self
genre metafiction
philosophical fiction
hasPublicationForm magazine or collection publication
importance key text for understanding Borges’s view of authorship and identity
influencedBy Borges’s own public fame
philosophical idealism
isFrequentlyAnthologizedIn collections of Borges’s short prose
isStudiedIn courses on Latin American literature
courses on literary theory
courses on metafiction
language Spanish
literaryDevice irony
metafiction
paradox
self-reference
unreliable narration
literaryMovement Latin American literature
postmodern literature
narrativeMode essayistic prose
narrativePerspective first person
setting intellectual and literary milieu of Buenos Aires
structure single brief monologue
style concise
philosophical
reflective
theme authorship
fame
identity
literary creation
public persona vs private self
self and other
tone introspective
meditative
melancholic

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