RESONANCIAS EVANGÉLICAS EN UN POEMA TARDÍO DE BORGES

Abstract

In the context of a study about the configurations of the sacred in Jorge Luis Borges’s poetry, this article examines the gospels resonances in a late poem by the writer. Having made gloss one of his distinct features, Borges shows, in the poem “El cómplice” (the accomplice), from the book La cifra (the figure, the sign), published in 1981, a first-person description of poet as an accomplice to the scourges suffered by himself and, in the end, a description of poetry as a priestly ministry in a direct link to the sacred. The same way tan the Antiquity paradigm, partly recovered by Anglo Saxon Romanticism, the poet is not an owner of a voice among others, nor someone talented or a genius, but indeed someone who offers to community, and offers himself as a victim, the service of communicating the profane with the sacred, immanence with transcendence.