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PIERRE MENARD, AUTOR DEL QUIJOTE: BIOGRAFÍA DE UN LECTOR
No full textEn este relato, Borges declara, mucho antes de que lo hiciera Barthes, la muerte del autor. El autor ha muerto y el lector viene a ocupar su lugar. Ello es posible gracias a la "lectura irreverente" del Quijote practicada por Borges, lectura fundada en el "robo" y la "traición". Menard, al efectuar una "citación total" del texto de Cervantes, lo "roba" letra por letra, traicionando, asimismo, las nociones de autor y original. Lo que hace Menard es "escribir su lectura" del Quijote, que aunque resulta ser una copia a la letra, es radicalmente distinta en el significado de ella, porque se lee siempre desde una tradición cultural, que muchas veces se construye. Resulta, así, que hay tantos Quijotes como lectores del Quijote. Como suplementos se exploran las ideas de Pierre Menard como precursor de Cervantes y la convicción de la superioridad del lector sobre el autor. "La carrera literaria más difícil es la del lector", escribe Macedonio Fernández, fuente secreta de todo lo aquí afirmadoIn this story, Borges, long before Barthes, proclaims the death of the author, The author is dead and the reader takes his place, This is possible through an "irreverent reading" of Don Quijote as practised by Borges, a reading based on "theft" and "betrayal" Menard, when effecting a "total citation" of Cervantes’ text, steals word by word, betraying likewise the notion of author and original. What Menard does is "to write his own reading of the Quijote, which, although becoming a literal copy, is radically distinct in meaning, because it is always read from a cultural tradition that is often constructed. The result is that there are as many Quijotes as readers of it. As supplements, the ideas of Pierre Menard as Cervantes’ predecessor are explored, and the superiority of the reader over the author. "The most difficult literary career is trhat of the reader", writes Macedonio Fernandez, secret source of all that is affirmed her
The Measurement of Intellectual Influence: the Views of a Sceptic
Get PDFIn an extremely interesting paper, Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004) [PV] introduce the axiomatic method to the problem of how to rank academic journals on the basis of their mutual citations. They characterize the invariant method as the only one satisfying a list of five appealing properties. In this note, I show an impossibility result, by identifying a sixth property that is violated by the invariant method. Further, I question the appeal of the PV axioms, when applied over larger domains of problems that take into account making distinctions among types of citations.
Otro Cervantes en Borges: los capítulos invisibles de Pierre Menard
Get PDFIn more than ninety of his works, Borges refers to Cervantes directly, and, in numerous others, he implicitly alludes to the father of the modern novel. Focusing on “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”, this essay analyzes, on the one hand, the games of self-representation hidden in Pierre Menard's visible works, and, on the other hand, Menard's (and therefore, Borges's) decision to attempt to reproduce chapters IX, XXII, and XXXVIII of the first part of Don Quixote. It is argued that these chapters possess particular significance, not only for Cervantes's novel but also for Borges's own literary project as well as for that of his fictional author. Lastly, three of Borges' most Cervantine short stories, “Death and the Compass”, “The South”, and “The Congress”, are briefly discussed.En más de noventa obras suyas, Borges se refiere de forma explícita a Cervantes, y en otras tantas hace alusión de manera implícita al padre de la novela moderna. Centrándose en “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”, este ensayo analiza por un lado los juegos de auto-representación ocultos en la obra visible de Pierre Menard, y, por el otro, la decisión de Menard (y por ende, de Borges) de intentar reproducir los capítulos IX, XXII y XXXVIII de la primera parte del Quijote. Según se argumenta, éstos poseen un significado especial, no sólo para la obra de Cervantes, sino también para el proyecto literario de Borges, así como para el de su autor ficcional. Por último, se comentan brevemente tres de los relatos más cervantinos de Borges: “La muerte y la brújula”, “El sur” y “El congreso”
Borges, Pierre Menard, rhizomaticity, and the simulation of palimpsestic writing
No full textAbstractPierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote shares with Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius several central aspects in the construction of the text, fundamentally the doubling of writing: that of Borges and Pierre Menard, where both simulate to tell story that it never gets told; and the creation of a world that is generated from pure discursivity.The text is divided in two sections, as indicated by Borges himself: one is the visible work of Pierre Menard, and the other is inconclusive work (1962 [1956]: 48–55). The first part is a catalogue of Menard’s library and the second letters by Menard addressed to Borges. In what follows we will analyze the gesture of inscribing writing.</jats:p
Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote: a reflection on the practice of the textual comment
No full textPractice of textual comments has been mainly developed within the theoreticalsphere. Jorge Luis Borges, in its short story Pierre Menard, author of Quijote,reflects on the sense of the text from the perspective of the reader. In this pieceof work, Borges answers the question about the ideal reader. Pierre Menardpersonifies such reader, who, at first, to strictly comply with his role as acompetent reader, tries to become assimilated with the text; and later discoversthat the best way to accomplish his purpose is to grab hold of it, that is, reachthe text from his own experiences. This is the ideal reader of all times, he who acknowledges the work, the author, and its circumstances, and, this informationworks as his baggage to take hold of his own experience, to withdraw thesense of the text.La práctica del comentario textual se ha desarrollado principalmente en el ámbito teórico. Jorge Luis Borges, en su cuento Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, realiza una reflexión sobre el sentido del texto desde la perspectiva del lector. En esta obra, Borges responde a la interrogante respecto del lector ideal. Pierre Menard encarna al lector que, en un primer momento, para cumplir
a cabalidad su rol de lector competente, intenta asimilarse al texto; y, luego, descubre que la mejor manera de lograr su propósito es apropiarse de él, es decir, llegar al texto a partir de las propias experiencias. Este es el lector ideal de cualquier época, aquel que conoce la obra, al autor y sus circunstancias, y esta información le sirve de bagaje para tomar de la propia vivencia, para
extraer el sentido del texto
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Adult mortality and probable cause of death in rural northern Malawi in the era of HIV treatment.
Get PDFOBJECTIVES: Developing countries are undergoing demographic transition with a shift from high mortality caused by communicable diseases (CD) to lower mortality rates caused by non-communicable diseases (NCD). HIV/AIDS has disrupted this trend in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in recent years, HIV-associated mortality has been reduced with the introduction of widely available antiretroviral therapy (ART). Side effects of ART may lead to increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, raising the prospects of an accelerated transition towards NCD as the primary cause of death. We report population-based data to investigate changes in cause of death owing to NCD during the first 4 years after introduction of HIV treatment. METHODS: We analysed data from a demographic surveillance system in Karonga district, Malawi, from September 2004 to August 2009. ART was introduced in mid-2005. Clinician review of verbal autopsies conducted 2-6 weeks after a death was used to establish a single principal cause of death. RESULTS: Over the entire period, there were 905 deaths, AIDS death rate fell from 505 to 160/100,000 person-years, and there was no evidence of an increase in NCD rates. The proportion of total deaths attributable to AIDS fell from 42% to 17% and from NCD increased from 37% to 49%. DISCUSSION: Our findings show that 4 years after the introduction of ART into HIV care in Karonga district, all-cause mortality has fallen dramatically, with no evidence of an increase in deaths owing to NCD
Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote : y de la Semiosis social
Get PDFLa semiótica argentina construyó como uno de los objetos privilegiados de estudio la dimensión significante de los procesos sociales de comunicación. La Teoría de los discursos sociales de Eliseo Verón es el marco conceptual a partir del cual se ha reflexionado sobre los procesos de significación social-comunicacional. Estos apuntes plantean que la concepción teórica de Verón sobre la discursividad social está prefigurada en "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote", y que el famoso cuento de Borges es una inmejorable ilustración de la teoría de Verón.The Argentine semiotics constructed as one of the privileged objects of study the significant dimension of the social communication processes. The Theory of social discourses of Eliseo Verón is the conceptual framework from which one has reflected on the processes of social-communicational significance. These notes suggest that Verón's theoretical conception of social discursivity is prefigured in "Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote," and that Borges's famous story is an excellent illustration of Verón's theory
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“I Saw All That”: A Lakota Girl's Puberty Ceremony
Get PDFOn 27 August 1994, Lakota elder Nellie Zelda Star Boy Menard was honored by her family and friends in a special ceremony at the Rosebud fair. The list of her extensive accomplishments in the arts was recited by relative Noah Broken Leg.
Menard was honored once before, but this time as a young girl. Her family venerated her in a special ceremony. At the age of fifteen, Menard underwent a traditional girl’s puberty ceremony. Born on 3 June 1910 in Belvidere, South Dakota on the Lakota (Sioux) Rosebud Reservation, Menard is one of very few living tribal members to experience this honorary ceremony. As Nellie says, “They don’t do that [puberty ceremony] anymore. That’s a thing of the past.... So very few people go through that .... I was the only girl [in my family] for a long time, so that’s how come I went through that.” No firsthand Lakota accounts of this ceremony have been published to our knowledge and only a handful of eyewitness accounts exist.
In the early 1980s, Menard transcribed her memories of the iinati awicalowanpi and tapa wankayeyapi ceremonies. She did this in response to a request by a Swiss gentleman who purchased her beaded ball, which was used in her ceremony:
This is the ceremony they [my family] had for me when I first had my period going on 15 years old.
First they put up a tent away from the house-I would say about 50 yards or hearing distance. I am to stay in this tent with my grandmother, my mother’s mother [Helen Long Warrior Leads the Horse]
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