Poética de la brevedad en Borges

Hello, I am Jose Alvarez and today I want to present you a class summary that I have developed on an author who is considered one of the best writers of all times although he did not write copious novels, nor endless essays, nor extensive poems. In truth his works do not exceed ten pages. Actually, I am referring to Jorge Luis Borges. His conciseness piqued my curiosity and that curiosity led me to produce a work on this Argentinan author to unravel his labyrinth and attempt to demonstrate that his spontaneous use of brevity marks a poetic vision with great implications because it is founded on the synopsis of philosophical, literary and cultural currents that Borges interprets, discusses, refutes and reinvents in a strikingly novel way. Throughout the classes I make a methodological review of countless studies on his work and examine in great detail his writings collected in five volumes which were edited by Emecé en 2002. His pantheistic vision, human beings' moments of epiphany, his love hate relationship with language and especially his permanent cultivation of a precise style, give rise to a style where silence resounds in an explosion that reveals the hidden aspects by a keen mastery of brevity.