Los testamentos traicionados de Jorge Luis Borges: una lectura de La memoria de Shakespeare

Borges always looked after the resonance and reception of his work. At the end of his life such a concern was acute enough as to become a literary topic since «cuando se acerca el fin, ya no quedan imagenes del recuerdo; solo quedan palabras» (Borges, 1989: I, 543-544). This led to the development of a kind of literary testament, project that already haunted his mind earlier, at the beginning of the sixties, according to his biographer Maria Esther Vazquez. Following this guideline, we sketch a new personal reading of his last collection of stories, which, by the way, has received so far much less critical appraisal than the previous ones.