Metafiction In "Continuity Of Parks" And "The Theme Of The Traitor
Metafiction
In
Borges' "Theme of the traitor and the hero"
And
Cortazar's "Continuity of parks"
The boundary between that which is real and that which is imitation or illusion, has a long intellectual history. In Republic, Plato describes the state of the majority of people's lived experience. Chained to the spot, humanity looks at shadows of artifacts cast by the light of a fire. It is only when they turn around that they realize they have been living a fantasy that is twice removed from the authentic universe. For behind them, are the artifacts themselves and beyond the cave, the Forms of which the artifacts are copies. Finally, they observe the sun and behold the Form of the Good, the all powerful organizing force that is the highest achievable state of reality. Unlike Plato, however, Borges' "Theme of the traitor and the hero" and Cortazar's "Continuity of parks", calls the existence of this binary into question; the world of Forms is collapsed into that of its......
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