...the ephemeral journal of the superrealist Jacques Reboul.) The text of Cervantes and that of Menard are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely...ambiguous, his detractors will say; but ambiguity is a richness.) It is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote of Menard with that of Cervantes. The latter,...

...recall once more his diatribe against Paul Vale"ry in Jacques Reboul's ephemeral Surrealist sheet.) Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical,...ambiguous, his detractors will say, but ambiguity is richness.) It is a revelation to compare Menard's Don Quixote with Cervantes'. The latter, for example,...

...recall once more his diatribe against Paul Valery in Jacques Reboul's ephemeral Surrealist sheet.) Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical,...ambiguous, his detractors will say, but ambiguity is richness.) It is a revelation to compare Menard's Don Quixote with Cervantes'. The latter, for example,...

...real intention he failed. He came to see that his work meant something quite different. "Cervantes1 text and Menard's are verbally identical, but the...ambiguous, his detractors will say, but ambiguity is richness.)" (p. 69) From the worldly perspective, this seems a logical fantasy, since the two texts...

...entities (Cervantes' Quixote and Menard's Quixote) can be subject to radically different interpretations: "Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely richer" (1970b:69). For two texts that analyse replication by way of an analysis of Borges' analysis of Menard's...

...writers, just as 52 Jorge Luis Borges read Don Quijote through Pierre Menard's rewriting. Like Menard in Borges's story, the Latin Americans produced contemporary...offering rhetorical praise for history. But when Menard rewrites it, Borges finds that "the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does...

...acquire an entirely different meaning. The result, according to Borges's narrator, is that "Cervantes's text and Menard's are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely richer" (421). Don Quijote's preference of arms over letters in Menard's text can thus be explained in various...

...rico. (Mas ambiguo, diran sus detractores; pero la ambigiiedad es una riqueza.)" (449) [Cervantes's text and Menard's are verbally identical, but the...ambiguous, his detractors will say; but ambiguity is an asset.)]. 4 1 Before, that is, there were intellectuals who thought of themselves as a class or...

...country; Menard selects as his "reality" the land of Carmen during the century of Lepanto and Lope de Vega Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely richer. It is a revelation to compare Menard's Quixote with Cervantes'. The latter, for example, wrote : ......

...Quixote,' in which a French symbolist poet recreates certain passages of Cervantes' novel word for word: 'Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely richer' (Labyrinths 42). CHAPTER 3 1 More finely calibrated intermediate stages of what is essentially an infinitely...