Research On The Imagination Skills In The Borges’s Novel

Jorge Luis Borges is the Latin American’s world famous Spanish writer and his novelsare known for shaping an imagination world, which is wonderful, diverse, and non logical.Post modernistic novel is always famous for its irrational and unconstrained style imagination.Therefore, the research on imagination skills in literary works has become a new focus for thescholars.In Borges’s novels, there are wild dreams in dreams, maze gardens with infinitebifurcation, libraries which lead to the heaven, books of infinite pages, mirrors whichrepresent duplication and reproduction, as well as the ferocious, sacred tigers. Thecombination of Borges’s consideration of philosophical problems such as the world, theuniverse and time, with these images jointly creates a magical world of imagination.If Borges is compared to a map carvers, also known as mapmaker, so his map is hisworld of imagination. When the mapmaker draws the map, he will mark the landmarks in thepicture, Borges in his world map will also mark the landmarks to guide readers similarly.That is to say,this landmark is the image. Only one image occurs in many scholars in thestudy of Borges’s works, which is similar to that in the map only marked a landmark will beable to cover every corner of the map.In fact, Borges indicated the multiple landmarks. Inorder to guide the reader through barrier free in this world of imagination, these signs areassociated with each other, different combinations can present different routes. This is theinnovation of this paper, the imaginary world of Borges is not only an image, but placingmultiple images, and images related to each other, through the reproduction, recombinationmakes different literary works have different meanings. Because of this, his imagination canbe called a skill.Borges was born in Latin America--the birthplace of magic realism, Borge’simagination has subtle connection with the magic realism. The magic is the means of magicrealism, the reality is its writing material, it is the author of the distortions of reality to writing.The academic circles have consistent approval is a saying that Borges’s novel is fantasyfiction. The creation method of fantasy novels and the magic realism is consistent, they allregard a magical or fantasy as a means, reality as the writing material.But the two things areessentially different. Borges’s novel has many fantasy elements, however, magic realism is abranch of literary realism, fantasy and reality is the two kinds of opposing literary styles.Moreover, magic realism literature has many local indigenous lifestyle, religious,mythological legend, but these are out of Borges’s imagination skills area. Therefore, Borges’snovels cannot be called the magic realism literature, it can only be called fantasy fiction The border of Borges’s imagination is that he recognized the role of imagination inliterary creation, but he did’t put literature in empty imagination. He put his thoughts on lifeand death, time, dreams, reflected in his fictional dreams, maze, eternal city,or the mirror andso on. His processing on imagination cleverly avoids the disadvantages of fantasynovels,which is non-specific. He put imagination to the implementation of specific objects,and selected the appropriate objects. The objects, such as maze, dreams, mirror, tiger all havea rich connotation. It is in the unique use of the imagination skills, Borges established hisliterary style and position, and then become a wonderful and bloom flower in Latin Americanliterature history.Above all,these images in the Borges’s novels are alone in a work generally. InsteadBorges lets many images appear in different works frequently with the purpose of using therelationship between images to serve for the literature. This paper chooses three topics foranalyzing--“dream”,“labyrinth”, and “life and death”. Based on Borges’s severalrepresentative short stories, such as "The Circular Ruins","The Immortal" and "The Gardenof Forking Paths", this paper discusses Borges’s imaginary skills. In the study, this paperuses the methods including juxtaposition, text reading and the circular interpretation. Thispaper tries to make an analysis of Borges’s imaginary world in a comprehensive,systematical and deep manner from the perspectives of Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology,Psychology and Narratology.