from Fiction and Diction, chapter 3: “Fictional Narrative, Factual Narrative” by Gérard Genette:
25Jorge Luis Borges, “Epilogo,” in Obras completas (Buenos Aires: Emece, 1974), 1143. The technique, of which Borges’s text is surely not the earliest illustration, has been used more recently by some of Jérôme Garcin’s collaborators in Le dictionnaire: Littérature française contemporaine (Paris: François Bourin, 1989), a collection of preemptive autonecrologies.
