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Shaping the word: repression, archive, and dialogical discourse in Jorge Luis Borges's "La muralla y los libros".

While Borges's non-fictions as well as his fictions brought him international fame, (1) in the writer's own words, his style does not change when he composes essays: "Me pregunto si hay alguna diferencia entre el estilo de la narrativa y el estilo del ensayo. En mi caso, no lo hay" (176). (2) My interpretation of "La muralla y los libros" ["The Wall and the Books"] from Otras Inquisiciones [Other Inquisitions] aims to show that this text is indispensable for an understanding of the author's metapoetical ideas, as well as for an investigation of the complex elements of dream-work, history, and artistic expression found in his writings. (3)

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