La imagen laberíntica como “Poiesis” en El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan de Jorge Luis Borges.

Abstract

The image as poiesis is impregnated with deep meanings in the labyrinth of time, as a category of analysis, it has been conditioned to an esthetician function but it has not always been approached from its creationist and metaphysical representational foundation. This is why we will analyze, addressing various interpretations ranging from formal reading to hermeneutical interpretation in the story “The garden of the bifurcating paths” by Jorge Luis Borges (1944); To achieve this task, some symbolic, allegorical, metaphorical and mythological elements selected with the labyrinth, time, war, mirrors and dualities are inevitably configured: in short, this event leads us to reflect on the bifurcations that divide us and us. abject towards complex human existence. With the reading and interpretation, we investigate the experience of the reflection of the symbol and time and how they are represented in what we know as reality, through poetic language, guiding this study by some symbol theorists who wish to guide the reader to contextualize it. so I will turn to the contributions of Chevalier, Cirlot and Apolodoro. Also noteworthy are the semiotic contributions of Juliana Kristeva, "That Unknown Language" (1988), to understand the importance of the literary text. Roland Barthes (1960), "The Rhetoric of the Image" and the poetics of Octavio Paz (1967), "The bow and the lyre" who help to define the poetic and Gilbert Durand in "The symbolic imagination" (1964) that is stops to demonstrate how the cultural imaginary from the anthropological construction and defines the production of the symbol. All these authors helped to build a hermeneutical exercise that is found here in Borges' text.