Analyzing the Contemporary Rudiments in Jorge Luis Borges’ Short Story “The Other Death”

Abstract

The research examines the Postmodernism aspects of the short story“The Other Death” by one of the eminent postmodernist writers Jorge Luis Borges. The research is exploratory in nature and it entails the application of the qualitativeapproach. Besides, the research has been conducted and examined through the prism ofPostmodernism. To this end, content analysis is employed in this study on the Jorge Luis Borgesshort story “the Other Death”. In the present research, the authors have appealed to thetheory of postmodern fiction referred to in the Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern.Fiction by Bran Nicol. The interpretative method has been utilized in the current research study of the text of “The Other Death”. It is through the prism of content analysis which has gained popularity to literary texts postmodernism. The results of the research have demonstrated that the narration is full ofnumerous postmodern aspects yet the key aspects examined by scholars include: Intertextuality, Metafiction, and Magical Realism. Different assorted things are interwoven into the short story. The text carries literaryreferences and the praise of the writer as well along with the aspects of magical realism.

Keywords: Fiction, Intertextuality, Jorge Luis Borges, Magical Realism, Metafiction, Postmodernism.