El Uruguay de Borges : un justo vaivén de la aproximación y de la distancia
Abstract
The image of Uruguay in Jorge Luis Borges’s works expresses itself in tenuous shades. The writer oscillates between a tendency to erase and a tendency to emphasize differences between the two banks of the Plata river. Shades fade when Borges defines the criollo element (in his essays) and when he rewrites (in his short stories) the history of the period during which Argentine and Uruguayan nation-states emerged by and through warfare. Shades between the two banks of the Plata river reappear, in contrast, in many other texts. The eastern bank becomes then a more dramatic, more basic and braver country than Argentina, a place where time passes more slowly, a space for quiet wonder, or a border where all kinds of traitors can certainly find a place of refuge, but a place that will turn out to be as precarious as dangerous.
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