Abstract: AbstractThe article takes as its starting point a reading of Jorge Luis Borges’ short storyPierre Menard, autor del Quijote, focusing on the first passage from Cervantes’Quijotethat is quoted verbatim in the text. An invocation of the river nymphs and the nymph Echo („las ninfas de los ríos, la húmida y dolorosa Eco“), it is singled out by the narrator as bearing the voice of Pierre Menard despite having never been attempted by him in his project of writingDon Quijoteagain. I argue that the invocation of Echo does not point to a dupli...
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