Between Babylonia and Paris. The domesticated chance from Borges to Cortázar

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Published: Jun 28, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2010.50.25982
Keywords:
Borges, Cortázar, Chance, Probability, Strategy, Game

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María Cristina Hernández Escobar

Abstract

On Borges’ fiction, whole life is organized according the rules of a collective passion: risk. Furthermore the topics of chance and fate, the author brings in a third one: chaos in society or, more exactly, the construction of a new cosmos recombining the ruins of the precedent one. Draw after draw, a totalitary system where liberum arbitrium is banned has being constructed. Lottery weaves an unending, closed net. On Cortázar’s story, chance and liberum arbitrium crisscross each other tracing axes that will be the privileged paths for a game —this time an individual and non-profit game—, that pursuives the disruption of “the stupid chains of daily life causality”. All begins into the Paris metro system.

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Hernández Escobar, M. C. (2011). Between Babylonia and Paris. The domesticated chance from Borges to Cortázar. Latinoamérica. Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (50), 9–20. https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2010.50.25982
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No. 50: 2010/1
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Argentinean Literature

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