![]() There’s also Mir Bahadur Ali, who writes a detective novel that mashes up Wilkie Collins and 12th-century Islamic theology. Most famous is Pierre Menard, who immerses himself in 17th-century literature and somehow produces a verbatim version of Don Quixote. One of the byproducts of this approach was a gallery of imaginary literary oddballs who had supposedly written the invented works. “To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes!” Borges’s solution was to pretend that the ideas that attracted him had already been turned into books, which he then reviewed. ![]() “T he composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance,” wrote the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. ![]()
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