Borges against Peron: a contextual approach to "El fin".(Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Domingo Peron) From: The Romanic Review | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Williamson, Edwin | COPYRIGHT 2007 Columbia University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"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...

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