The library of babel as a sacred physical space

Authors

  • Marcella Abboud Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem - IEL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2014v13.e27073

Keywords:

Sacred, Library, Borges, Sublime

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of the short story "The Library of Babel", written by the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, as a space belonging to the Sacred, within the characterization given by the dichotomy between Sacred and Profane, which is introduced by Mircea Eliade in “The Sacred and the Profane: the Nature of Religion”. The Library, besides sacred, is constituted as Sublime, in the Kantian sense.

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Author Biography

Marcella Abboud, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem - IEL

PhD student in Theory and Literary Criticism at the Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem - IEL

References

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BÍBLIA DE JERUSALÉM. São Paulo: Paulus, 2008.

BORGES, Jorge Luis. Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2010.

ELIADE, Mircea. Sagrado e o Profano: a essência das religiões. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2001.

KANT, Immanuel. Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo. 2 . ed. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 1995.

Published

2014-12-23

How to Cite

Abboud, M. (2014). The library of babel as a sacred physical space. Estação Literária, 13, 302–312. https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2014v13.e27073

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Section

Artigos do Dossiê Temático