Question

Which of the following situations involves a change of medium?

A. A poet is inspired by an older poem about the Statue of Liberty and writes an entirely new
poem about the same topic.
B. A novelist copies Miguel Cervantes's novel, Don Quixote, word for word.
C. A computer programmer decides to create a video game based on Shakespeare's play
Macbeth.
D. A comic book writer is unsatisfied with the story of Spider-Man's origins, so she writes a
completely different origin story for the superhero.

Answer 1

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’ is a short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story, narrated as a non-fiction account by the fictional Menard’s equally fictional friend, sees the title character attempting to write Miguel de Cervantes’ seventeenth-century novel Don Quixote. The story is witty, funny, and absurdist – even postmodern – and raises some intriguing questions about literature and readership.