Tag: Pierre Menard
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What purpose does the narrator’s introduction of the philosophers Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, and William James serve?
Read Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” (in course reading folder). The story recounts the attempt by the fictional early 20th-century author Pierre Menard to write “the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters of the first part of Don Quixote and a fragment of Chapter XXII.” “His admirable intention was to produce…