Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | Pierre Menard
Pierre Menard is the subject of the fictional essay "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," but he is hardly a character in the true sense of that word. Rather, Pierre Menard offers the narrator a reason to expound on his theories of language, memory, reading, and historical context. A historical Pierre Menard did live in Nimes, France, at the time of which Borges writes, though his published essay on the psychoanalytical analysis of handwriting (1931) was unremarkable. A Louis Menard (1822-1901), possibly Pierre's father or grandfather, had attempted to rewrite the Odyssey....
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