Borges dijo en 1945 que hablar era metaforizar y toda su vida se dedicó, desde su obra
creativa, desde su obra crítica, desde sus comparecencias públicas, académicas o extraacadémicas,
a demostrarnos que no hay diferencia entre lenguaje literal y lenguaje figurativo;
ambos son vanos intentos de apalabrar una realidad siempre inasible. Su postura se instala
en una tradición crítica que se inicia en Cicerón y llega a nuestros días.
In 1945 Borges stated that to speak was to metaphorize and all his life he strove —through
his creative works, his critical writings, his academic and extra-academic public appearances—
to demonstrate to his readers that there is no difference between literal and figurative
language: in both cases they are merely vain attempts to render into words an ever
inaccessible reality. His point o view was set within a cultural tradition which was initiated
with Cicero and reaches down to our own days.
