Question

This author praised Alexander Pope’s “speeches and spectacles” translation of the Odyssey in “The Homeric Versions,” which argues that “none or all” translations are faithful. This author argued that writers create their own precursors (15[1]-5[1])in an essay (15[2])which claims that Browning’s (15[1])“Fears and Scruples” prophesies (-5[1])Kafka. The narrator of a (15[1])short story by this author (-5[1])finds an encyclopedia describing a Berkeleyian (15[2])idealist (15[2])society (15[3])with a (15[2])(*) nounless (10[3])language. (10[10])A (10[1])narrator (10[3])created by this author considers the original Don Quixote (10[3])to be inferior (10[3])to an identical version (10[1])written by Pierre Menard. (10[3])This author was inspired by (10[1])the infinite monkey theorem (10[1])in a work that imagines a universe filled with hexagonal (10[1])rooms containing all possible (10[1])books. For 10 points, name this author of “The Library of Babel.” ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges [or Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo] (The second sentence refers to the essay “Kafka and his Precursors.” The story in the third sentence is “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”)
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