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Jorge Luis Borges and Anachronism

Carlo Bordoni    Independent researcher    

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abstract

In a short story of Ficciones, Borges presents Pierre Menard, the author of a modern version of Don Quixote. A plagiarism or a deliberate paradoxical anachronism, that questions the whole history of literature through erroneous attributions. It is not an isolated case, as Borges uses the idea of plagiarism in another text: the Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, written with Bioy Casares, where the bold César Paladión seeks fame by publishing, at his expense, works manifestly written by others.

Published
June 29, 2017
Submitted
Dec. 21, 2016
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IT

Keywords: Don Quixote • Plagiarism • Paradox • Anachronism • Attributions

permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/2037-6588/Ri-40-107-17-9

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