The interstices of liberalism. Theater and Peronism in Borges

Abstract

Given the recent interpretation of Borges as an anarchist author, the text tries to show that Borge’s position is rather liberal, since he does not hope to go beyond representation, but limiting it in light of the threat of the whole world becoming representation. Borges links this last possibility to Peronism, in which he affirms a theaterthat, after the momentary theatrical suspension of reality, could be distinguished
ethically between theater and reality. In order to show it, we will stop on the texts of
Borges about Shakespeare and Del Campo, and on the tales “A Weary Man’s Utopia”
and “Averroes’ Search”, showing his counterpoint between a generic life, incapable of thinking about the theatrical representation, and the nominalistic modern life that
allows both modern theater and the political liberalism that Borges defends.
Keywords: Averroes, Representation, Simulation.