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MABEL BASTERRECHEA
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Miami,
P.O. Box 248093, Coral Gables, FL 33124-4650, USA
E-mail: mabel46@aol.com
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This article deals with the way Borges text prefigures the literary theories based on the
phenomenon of reception and how it antedates the interplays of perspectives proposed
by several postmodern theoretical projects. In so doing, I present the reading of Borges
from the point of view of the Rezeptionsthetik, as well as a summary of the borgesian
theory of precursors in its relationship to the act of reading. As a result of this approach
I see in Borges Pierre Menard a work of fiction that, far from being a mere parody of
literary criticism, contains an important philosophical kernel that conceptualizes reading
as the generator of meaning.