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Menard, Pierre

Index: Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, Ficciones, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 444-50. Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, CQ,Cervantes y el Quijote. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2005. 35-48. Libros y amistad,M,Museo. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2002. 18.
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French symbolist writer, character in Borges story, author of Les problèmes d'un problème, Don Quijote and numerous other works, associated with Dr. Pierre Menard, French expert on graphology

Fishburn and Hughes: "A fictional character, perhaps drawn from Louis Menard (1822-1901). In an article by the symbolist writer Rémy de Gourmont (which Borges probably read), Louis Menard is described as a master of parody. He attempted to rewrite some of the lost Greek tragedies, including Aeschylus' Prometheus bound, and, as a hoax, wrote a piece which he attributed to Diderot. Like the fictional Pierre Menard, he indulged in anachronistic readings, thinking of Shakespeare when reading Homer, linking Helen with Hamlet and imagining Desdemona at Achilles' feet (see Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Jorge Luis Borges: a Literary Biography 123 and Daniel Balderston, Out of Context, 149-50)." (128)