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Eliot, Borges, tradition, and irony.(T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges)(Critical essay)

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From: Symposium
Date: 20060101
Author:Venegas, Jose Luis

IN "LA MURALLA Y LOS LIBROS," Jorge Luis Borges comments on Chinese Emperor Shih Huang Ti's decrees to wall his empire in and to burn all the books predating the time of his rule. In Borges's opinion, the interest in both acts probably rests on their opposition, on the way they cancel each other out by constructing and destroying on an enormous scale (Obras completas [OC] 2:13). With its discussion of this enigmatic simultaneity of creation and annihilation, this short note suggests one of Borges's recurrent critical concerns, namely the dynamics between tradition and innovation. ...

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