Sociologists and philosophers such as Foucauld or Baudrillard as well as semioticians and literary theorist such as Eco, Genette and Alazraki, Rodríguez Monegal, Echavarría and Merrell, have described and established the central importance of Borges as a particular and very special producer of signs. Especially the location of Borges in extraliterary fields, that is to say, the contextualization and interpretation of his works in a broader context than the one of fictional literature, constitutes the centre of interest of this volume. In this way, the volume is intended to make a contribution to those aspects of the work of Borges in which he proves himself to be must ambiguous but at the same time most interesting and complex.

Borges is not a mere pioneer of both literary an philosophical theories that have taken shape, particulary during the second half of this century, but he also introduces complete paradigms into current knowledge and thought.

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