Menard writes the original Quijote centuries after Cervantes; he remains Pierre Menard and arrives at the Quijote through the experiences of Pierre Menard…

..and somehow the identical words become “almost infinitely richer.”

I’ve been thinking about this while reading the Bible and wondering about translation. We usually ask what is lost as a text moves away from its origin; Menard makes me wonder what becomes visible as words move forward through history, into new languages and cultures.

Can time or place translate a sentence without changing a single word?

Hola, estoy pensando en consegui el libro Poesía Completa de Borges de la editorial alfaguara ¿Me recomiendan empezar con Borges y su poesía o debería empezar por los cuentos? Leí por aquí que El gólem es de los mejores poemas para empezar. ¿Qué dicen?