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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges

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Name: Jorge Luis Borges
Birth Date: August 24, 1899
Death Date: June 14, 1986
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place of Death: Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality: Argentine
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
806 words, approx. 2.7 pages
The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets. His short stories revealed him as one of the great stylists of the Spanish language. Jorge Luis Borges was born on August...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's best-known writer, was born on 24 August 1899 in a traditional old house in central Buenos Aires (not far from today's financial district) and grew up in the neighborhood of Palermo. His father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was...
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Biography of Jorge Luis Borges
7145 words, approx. 23.8 pages
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary world literature. Continuing the tradition of fantastic literature established by Edgar Allan Poe in the nineteenth century, he transformed the genre into an elec...
 


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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote Information
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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, May 1939. The Spanish-language...


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Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
Authors and readers in the 1605 Quixote (1).
09/22/2004: 4,767 words, approx. 16 pages
In recent years, there have been several shorter studies devoted to the readers in and the reading of Don Quixote. Edward H. Friedman's and Salvador J. Fajardo's commentaries on the reading experience come to mind, and James A. Parr has a piece on readers...
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The Romanic Review
Don Quixote rides again!
01/01/1995: 11,489 words, approx. 38 pages
A critical reading of Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote'" argues against the interpretation that the story is about individuation of art. Thematic, structural and textual examination leads to the conclusion that the work is a sustained parody, an ironic...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michael Wreen
11,203 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Wreen presents a philosophical argument for reading Borges's story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” as a version of Don Quixote.


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