Pierre Menard, Author of the (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Plot: Metafiction
- Time of Work: 1918-1934
- Setting: Nimes and Bayonne, France
- Principal Characters: Pierre Menard, The narrator
- Genres: Criticism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists
- Locales: Nimes, France, Bayonne, France
The Story
The title of this story indicates that Jorge Luis Borges is engaging in his customary mischief of rearranging the universe, for almost any reader of the fiction of this master storyteller would know that the author of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615; The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, 1612-1620; better known as Don Quixote de la Mancha) is not Pierre Menard but Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). The narrator begins by relating the details of his encounter with Menard through a...
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