| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 英文學系碩士班 === 97 === Famous for its curious and baffling features, Borges’ writing in short stories reveals Borges’ expectation of Self to have the ability for allness and his endeavors to make it practical. With bewilderment, Borges’ writing liberates Self from the forms of identity, subjectivity and logos that, for Borges, are all formalizing. With curiosity, the writing encourages Self to work through the meaning with concrete relations. In “Borges and I,” “A New Refutation of Time” and Seven Nights, Borges conceptualizes a particular notion of Self. In “The Argentine Writer and Tradition,” “Three Versions of Judas” and “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Borges expects Self to possess the ability for allness. In “Funes, the Memorious” and “The Aleph,” Borges even depicts his ideal Self as the Funes who could remember the minutest difference and Ireneo who could contemplate the limitless in the Aleph. From the approach of Deleuze’s perspective of writing and his theory of becoming, Borges’ writing could be interpreted as a writing of becoming escaping differences that are only about arbitrariness, abstraction and generality and embracing the itselfness in differences. With difference in itself, the carrying out of repetition that includes difference by the conception of Self in his writing is thus possible. Self in Borges’ writing is expected to head toward difference and repetition. In difference, Self experiences the concreteness of a relation rather than the arbitrariness, abstraction and generality of a relation. In repetition, it experiences the possibility of an actual infinity. From the angles of becoming, difference and repetition, one could realize that Borges’ writing provides a new method of reading that responds to his theory of translation. This method does not look for the meaning inherent in the text itself, but the potential values that are both essential and infinite immersed and acted in Self.
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