On The Jokes In Borges’ Fictions

The comedy of Borges’fictions haven’t been appropriately discussed. This paper mainly focus on the joke phenomenon which is the component of this comedy. As the joke phenomenon is constantly referred to in the other studies on Borges, but the in-depth exploration has never been done on it. What’s more, Borges’s joke is thought-provoking, which would result in the vibration in thinking and the creation of skepticism. Hence it’s worth discussing thoroughly.Firstly, this paper analyze and conclude the definition and function of the Joke in order to approach the jokes in Borges’ texts. Subsequently it will analyze the characteristics of the Joke in Borges’fictions, Such as pretending to be objective, setting jokes beneath the details and teasing the reader to force them be skeptic and find the esoteric comedy. In the expression of two themes, writing and villainy, Borges’joke reveals the perspective that the world is residual and oblivious. Human-beings’world is defined by the nature of human as a kind of deletion and oblivion. So the technology of memory is the basic frame of world. Since the technology is rational and excludes other forms of thought, that makes our world becoming a kind of remain. And Borges use the jokes to reach the transcendental comedy for facing the shame which comes from this kind of remain. Simultaneously through the typo of scribes to make laughter to reveal the shadow of the reason.At last, this paper discuss the aesthetic characters of jokes in Borges’ fictions. It’s a baroque aesthetics of fold which has the sense of approaching infinite. This baroque fold functions in the text as fold-unfold to push the comedy of jokes toward the infinity world of freedom.