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Monday Apr 25, 2022

Fictionalizing the Real with Jorge Luis Borges

Fictionalizing the Real with Jorge Luis Borges

Borges often looked to his work as an essayist and literary critic when looking for inspiration for his fiction, be it in the form of using that fiction to better understand writing or taking on the forms of non-fiction directly. While the first of these is inevitably touched upon in this episode, we focus more directly on the formal effort of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" to discuss ways in which writers can take formal inspiration from the world of non-fiction.

  • "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" - Jorge Luis Borges

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