DANTE, BORGES' FORERUNNER

Abstract

The writer Dante Alighieri rehearses in his literary project a poetic of reading with the resumption of his great influences as in Comedy, a work that reflects the problems that affect all men. He does an interesting work by resuming his precursors and his paideuma was the greco-latin tradition besides the provencal poets. It is rewritten by Jorge Luis Borges, central figure in this research, through El Aleph (1949). By overcoming time and space, both are considered universal writers. In this artifice, it is believed that Borges performs a new reading of Dante from his own perspective; it is the creation of his precursor implying problems that disturb him during the course of his life as a writer and as a man. The work of art for him is not a finished object and the notion of originality is lost, assuming that everything else has already been written.