Vestígios da tradição judaica: Borges e outros rabinos

Abstract

The presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary art and literature isdiscussed in the works of Jorge Luis Borges. The inscription of vestiges of this tradition in Borges' texts signalled to the practice of a poetics that outlines a narrative and performing space in which cultural and literaiy tiaditions enact identities, discourses and powers, through memory preserving strategies. This approach of Latin American culture as an heir to the Jewish tradition-keeping legacy revealed itself as a possibility of resistance and survival of cunent narrative proficiency.