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Pierre menard jorge luis borges biography
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Short story by Jorge Luis Borges
| "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" | |
|---|---|
| Translator | Anthony Bonner |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre(s) | Metafictional short story |
| Published in | Sur |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | May |
| Published in English | |
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (original Spanish title: "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
It originally appeared in Spanish in the Argentine journal Sur in May The Spanish-language original was first published in book form in Borges's collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths), which was included in his much-reprinted Ficciones ().
Plot summary
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is written in the form of a review or literary critical piece about Pierre Menard, a fictional eccentric 20th-century French writer and polymath.
It beg