Borges on Language and Translation
Philosophy and Literature (1995)
- ISSN: 01900013
Abstract
This essay offers on interpretation of the story "Averroes' Search" by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It is argued that the portrayal of Averroes's inability to understand and thus translate the words "tragedy" and "comedy" in Aristotle's works is intended to demonstrate the incommensurality of different cultures, time periods, and languages. The philosophical thesis of this story anticipates many well-known contemporary theories in epistemology and hermeneutics about the relation of language to reality and culture.
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