Abreu Mendoza, Carlos2019-04-052019-04-052015-04Abreu Mendoza, C. (2015). Borges, Tlön and the Third Tiger: Towards a Poetics of Experience. Readings, 1(1), pp. 1-6.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/7958Readers tend to think of Jorge Luis Borges as a writer of abstractions and obscure cultural references, the inventor of imaginary planets and infinite libraries. However, a great deal of Borges’s work is rooted in an empathetic and concrete understanding of the world. This paper analyses The Maker, a 1960 collection of texts that marks Borges’s rediscovery of the human experience as the source of poetic inspiration.Text6 pages1 file (.pdf)enThe Makerpoetics of experiencehuman experienceBorges, Jorge LuisWorld Languages and LiteraturesArticle