Abstract
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) astonished the literary establishments of Western Europe and the United States with his works and poetics, which had a pivotal impact on influential writers and critics. This research project wants to offer a better understanding of the reception of Borges, using polysystem theory as its methodological foundation and working from a comparative perspective. It studies the reception of Borges in three kinds of literary domains: the centre (France, Germany, England, US), the semi-periphery (the Netherlands) and the periphery (Argentina, Spain during the Franco dictatorship). Polysystem theory?s concepts will be operationalised so that a phenomenon which has not only national, but also international and transnational dimensions, can be analysed and described adequately.