Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

A fictional review of a fictional author whose life work was to write — not copy, write — two chapters of Don Quixote, word for word identical to Cervantes and, the narrator demonstrates, utterly different in meaning.

Multiordinality staged as comedy: the same string of words changes sense as its context moves. Every argument about quotation, translation and revival is this story wearing a serious face.