Manierism, baroque, postmodernism: Jorge Luis Borges
The paper is focused on some of J. L. Borges’ short stories as starting points for historiographical metafiction. The article also analyses the influence of Borges’ work on novels written by Salman Rushdie as well as Borges’ influence on Romanian postmodernism and upon authors like Ştefan Agopian and Mircea Cărtărescu.
Keywords: fiction, metafiction, history, story, historiographical metafiction