Abstratct
This work aims to show the concept of Eternal Return of Nietzsche, in its cosmological version, it was used by Borges as argument of the story The Library of Babel. Therefore, the Poetics of reading will be brought up along with its connection with the concept of the philosophical-narrative situation to subsidize the research. Then, the understanding of Borges about the Eternal Return of Nietzsche will be discussed. Finally, the story will be analyzed in order to check on it the elements that show that the argument of The Library of Babel is Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Return.
Keywords
Borges; eternal return; Nietzsche; philosophical-narrative situation; poetics of reading