Borges et/est le Livre : fiction, fictionnalisation et fictivité
Borges and the Book: Fiction, Fictionalization and Fictivity

Summary/Abstract: The theme of the book staged in the texts of Jorge Luis Borges has the capacity to generate significant intertextuality. Its frequency in the Borgesian literary production (tales, short stories, essays, even poetry) justified this study. One of the iconic fictions of this naming is, without a doubt, The Book of Sand, where Borges imagined that there could be an “Endless Book”, the book of books that contains all the books past, present and future. While the Argentine author invests the book in his fictional stories as a character in his own right, this heroization has a bearing on the outcome of the plot and on the characters’ actions. The book, like a character in a novel, is somehow “more than itself ”, a paper medium, stained with ink. Being the keystone of the narrative, it acquires a status that is more than that of a mere fictional figure. In Borgesian fictions, it became the germ of a conception of the world. The insertion of the book as the main character of the book highlights Borges’s tender love for this substratum and the way he adds value to it.

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