Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

Metadata

• Media: #shortstory
  • Author: [[!Jorge Luis Borges]]
  • From: B-Ficciones
  • Status: read
  • Date: 2020-08-21
  • Tags: #fantasy #surreal fictional commentaries
  • Rating: ★★★☆☆
  • Idea richness: ★★☆☆☆

Summary

A man sets out to rewrite/translate/reimagine [[!Don Quixote]].

Thoughts

This one dragged until about halfway when you begin to realise how humourous and almost sarcastic it becomes. A musing on translation?

Highlights

• "The task I have undertaken is not in essence difficult, [...] if I could just be immortal, I could do it."
• "ambiguity is richness" --> Is ambiguity richness