> It’s roughly coterminous with the age of the novel: starting with Don Quixote; maybe starting to collapse with Pierre Menard, who could produce a word-for-word replica of Don Quixote that was an entirely different text, simply because it was written by Pierre Menard and not by Miguel de Cervantes.
Pierre Menard was not a real person, but a fictional character in a book by Jorge Luis Borges.
It really tanks the trustworthiness of the article to find obvious errors like this, when the article as a whole depends on numerous literary references to back its arguments.
Pierre Menard was not a real person, but a fictional character in a book by Jorge Luis Borges.
It really tanks the trustworthiness of the article to find obvious errors like this, when the article as a whole depends on numerous literary references to back its arguments.
(I have made the same complaint before: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747352>)