My published research paper on Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges, 1968 (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) My research paper on “Jorge Luis Borges and the Nothingness of the Self” has been published in the 2016 edition of the Literature & Aesthetics journal released a few days back. In this paper, I discuss how Borges uses his ideas on selfhood to explore the “central problem of literature” that Andre Maurois highlighted and how in the process projects to the reader his idea of reality. I argue also that the self that Borges tries to present in his work may nevertheless not be always congruent with the self he may have wanted to convey. This is because his quest is influenced by a number of factors, not least the fact that the self-creation process is affected by our interplay with the external world.