Viagens místico-linguísticas ao inferno: considerações sobre a obra de Jorge Luis Borges e Emmanuel Swedenborg

Raul Azevedo de Andrade Ferreira

doi:10.5433/el.2012v10.e25593

Mystical-linguistic voyages to hell: considerations on the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Emmanuel Swedenborg

Authors

Raul Azevedo de Andrade Ferreira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9932-0957

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2012v10.e25593

Keywords:

Wedenborg, Borges, Comparative studies

Abstract

This article addresses two kinds of trips which, although quite distinct, are related in the analyzed case. The first is a linguistic trip created through a translation worked as an aesthetic exercise by Jorge Luis Borges. The second kind of trip has mystical trait and acts as the prompting of the first: the trip by Emmanuel Swedenborg on spiritual planes. The study verifies how the conclusions obtained by the Swedish mystic from what was discovered in his mystical wanderings were able to induce symbolic spaces that serve as migratory destinations for other texts.

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Author Biography

Raul Azevedo de Andrade Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE

PhD student in Theory of Literature Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE

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Published

2012-04-19

How to Cite

Ferreira, R. A. de A. (2012). Mystical-linguistic voyages to hell: considerations on the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Emmanuel Swedenborg. Estação Literária, 10(3Supl), 277–291. https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2012v10.e25593

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Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3Supl (2012)

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Artigos do Dossiê Temático

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