Fervor and Melancholy: urban experience in Jorge Luis Borges

Authors

  • Patrícia Leme University of São Paulo. Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2016.115222

Keywords:

Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Baudelaire, urban experience, temporality, literary modernity

Abstract

This work proposes an interpretation of urban experience in Jorge Lui Borges' first book, Fervor de Buenos Aires, to be modulated by Charles Baudelaire's poetic oeuvre. The relation will be established through temporality as mobilized in the selected poems, a poetic aspect that creates specific spatial configurations: whereas Baudelaire's Paris doesn't stop, the borgesian Buenos Aires stays frozen in time, difference that calls into question the many poetic approaches to the theme of the city during the literary modernity.

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Author Biography

  • Patrícia Leme, University of São Paulo. Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences

    Doutoranda em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas - FFLCH/USP

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Published

2017-05-11

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Section

LAVA

How to Cite

Leme, P. (2017). Fervor and Melancholy: urban experience in Jorge Luis Borges. Magma, 23(13), 123-143. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2016.115222