Redefinition of the sense of Aleph of Borges by the aesthetic reception categories

Abstract

The paper introduces a critical reflection about different ways of literary study from the book and the author mentioned in the title; it aims to present a brief epistemological corpus of aesthetic reception from the Hans Robert Jauss postulates as a new method of literary criticism, which includes the reader (central element of the interpretive act) and tries to apply the categories of the reception aesthetics in the tale of “Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges, to show that the hermeneutic exercise not only allows the redefinition of the meaning of a text, from a current time frame, but the cognitive alteration of the reader. Therefore, the reflection concludes that the meaning of a content does not dwell on the text itself but it is constructed dialogically between the author and the text with the reader, who updates and objectifies the sense of a new act of interpretation.