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Borges against Peron: a contextual approach to "El fin".(Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Domingo Peron)

"El fin" is possibly the least studied of all the stories in Borges's Ficciones. It is at first sight a very slight tale in which Borges chose to alter the ending of Jose Hernandez's classic poem El gaucho Martin Fierro (1872; 1879). Its kinship with "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote" is not hard to see: Pierre Menard sets out to "re-write" Cervantes's Don Quixote word for word, whilst in "El fin" Borges re-writes the ending of the Martin Fierro. Both stories call into question the unique authority of a literary classic and insinuate that even the most revered of authors may in the end be not much different from any other author, thereby exemplifying one of Borges's favourite ...

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