Borges en México. La impronta borgiana en la narrativa brevísima de Arreola, Monterroso, Colina y Avilés Fabila

Abstract

This paper describes the ways in which the relationship of influence exerted by Borges on four key authors in the configuration of the short-short story created in Mexico can be interpreted. These four auteurs are Juan José Arreola, Augusto Monterroso, José de la Colina and René Avilés Fabila. In general terms, we start from the following assumptions: Borges’s imprint on the very short Mexican narrative can be understood in terms of an atomic, dynamic scheme, in which the readings and writings of the Argentine influence and are influenced at the same time by the four authors cited in this work; also, intertextuality, the allusion to Borgesian themes such as time, eternity and the classics of Western literature constitute the primary material on which the four creators return to the Borgesian heritage in a manifest vocation to cultivate the bases of the short-short story as a narrative genre.