Borges heredero: Una lectura del texto autobiográfico

Abstract

As meaningful as "the reading scene" proposed by Silvia Molloy in her well-known paperabout Hispanic-American autobiography, is the time when the writer establishes a genealogic narrative, a parental relationship, a proper name and a heritage within the text. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, this issue is referred to as "family novel". In this paper, this problem will be dealt with in order to show the way in which the texts of Jorge Luis Borges, and particularly his autobiography -written as an essay- are established.