Palimpsestuous reading of “The Aleph” The implementation of three transtextual relations

Abstract

The objective of this article is to see the deployment of three transtextual relations: intertextuality, hypertextuality –well-known in literary studies– and literary allotropy –which is proposed as an emerging transtextual relation–, from the analysis of the short story “El Aleph,” by Borges. Thus, the literary analysis is carried out based on the three types of relations that the famous story establishes with the following texts: “The Crystal Egg,” by Wells, where an intertextual link can be verified; “Help a él,” by Fogwill, in which the hypertextual relation is noted; and with “The Fattened Aleph,” by Katchadjian, where the practice of literary allotropy takes place.