Practice of textual comments has been mainly developed within the theoreticalsphere. Jorge Luis Borges, in its short story Pierre Menard, author of Quijote,reflects on the sense of the text from the perspective of the reader. In this pieceof work, Borges answers the question about the ideal reader. Pierre Menardpersonifies such reader, who, at first, to strictly comply with his role as acompetent reader, tries to become assimilated with the text; and later discoversthat the best way to accomplish his purpose is to grab hold of it, that is, reachthe text from his own experiences. This is the ideal reader of all times, he who acknowledges the work, the author, and its circumstances, and, this informationworks as his baggage to take hold of his own experience, to withdraw thesense of the text.La práctica del comentario textual se ha   desarrollado principalmente en el ámbito teórico. Jorge Luis Borges, en su cuento Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, realiza una reflexión sobre el sentido del texto desde la perspectiva del lector. En esta obra, Borges responde a la interrogante respecto del lector ideal. Pierre Menard encarna al lector que, en un primer momento, para cumplira cabalidad su rol de lector competente, intenta asimilarse al texto; y, luego, descubre que la mejor manera de lograr su propósito es apropiarse de él, es decir, llegar al texto a partir de las propias experiencias. Este es el lector ideal de cualquier época, aquel que conoce la obra, al autor y sus circunstancias, y esta información le sirve de bagaje para tomar de la propia vivencia, paraextraer el sentido del texto.

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