La busca de Averroes

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"La busca de Averroes" is a short essay by Jorge Luis Borges that imaginatively depicts the philosopher Averroes’s futile attempt to understand the concepts of tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without any direct experience of theater.

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La busca de Averroes canonical 2
The Search for Averroes 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictionalized essay ⓘ
short story ⓘ
author Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ
basedOn Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
containsMotif misinterpretation of texts ⓘ
scholarly commentary ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Argentina ⓘ
exploresConcept epistemological limits ⓘ
hermeneutics ⓘ
intercultural translation ⓘ
featuresCharacter Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
firstPublicationYear 1947 ⓘ
genre metafiction ⓘ
philosophical fiction ⓘ
short story ⓘ
hasAuthorialIntrusion true ⓘ
hasCriticalReception widely studied in Borges scholarship ⓘ
hasImaginedHistoricalFigure Averroes ⓘ
hasMetafictionalElement author comments on his own difficulty in imagining Averroes ⓘ
hasNarrativeFrame fictional reconstruction of Averroes’s intellectual struggle ⓘ
hasPerspectiveOn difficulties of cross-cultural understanding ⓘ
relationship between language and reality ⓘ
hasSettingPeriod 12th century ⓘ
hasTitleMeaning The Search for Averroes ⓘ
includedInCollection El Aleph ⓘ
isAbout Averroes’s attempt to understand tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without knowledge of theater ⓘ
language Spanish ⓘ
literaryForm prose ⓘ
literaryMovement magic realism ⓘ
mainCharacter Averroes ⓘ
narrativeTechnique self-referential commentary ⓘ
third-person narration ⓘ
originalTitle La busca de Averroes ⓘ
plotSummary Averroes struggles to understand Aristotle’s concepts of tragedy and comedy without any direct knowledge of theater. ⓘ
publisherOfFirstBookEdition Editorial Losada ⓘ
referencesAuthor Aristotle ⓘ
referencesWork Poetics ⓘ
setIn Córdoba ⓘ
medieval Islamic Spain ⓘ
theme cultural incommensurability ⓘ
failure of knowledge ⓘ
limits of understanding ⓘ
nature of representation ⓘ
translation and interpretation ⓘ
workIn Borgesian canon ⓘ

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Otras inquisiciones → hasPart → La busca de Averroes ⓘ
La busca de Averroes → originalTitle → La busca de Averroes ⓘ
La busca de Averroes → hasTitleMeaning → The Search for Averroes ⓘ
linked to: La busca de Averroes