own right as "one of the most important Argentine prose writers of his time", for having influenced writers such as Leopoldo Marechal (an otherwise anti-Borgesian), or Julio Cortázar's use of fictional language and slang in his masterpiece Hopscotch. His 1966 biography of his friend Pablo Neruda, who accepted to lend him his personal papers, remains a key book on the topic. Similarly, his 1970 study and 1978 biography of his friend Borges remain key books. In June 1985, Monegal published an article exploring the "kinship" between Derrida's themes in "Plato's Pharmacy" and the work of Borges, from essays and tales Derrida had read such as "Pierre Menard" (1939) and "Tlön" (1940). He wrote that "I had experienced [deconstruction] in Borges avant la lettre, though also writing that "the intent here is not to produce another exercise of the 'Borges, presursor of Derrida' variety." Bibliography The bulk of Monegal's works exists only in Spanish. For untranslated texts, an English equivalent of the title is provided in parentheses. Books 1950: ("José Enrique Rodó in the twentieth century") 1956: ("The trial of the parricides. The new Argentine generation and their masters.", study of the dismissal of Borges, Mallea, and Martínez Estrada in Argentina) 1961: ("The roots of Horacio Quiroga") 1961: ("Storytellers of this America", seventeen essays on prominent fiction writers of contemporary Latin American literature) Expanded to thirty-four writers in two volumes (1969 and 1974) 1963: ("Eduardo Acevedo Díaz. Two versions of a same theme.") 1964: (with Homero Alsina Thevenet, "Ingmar Bergman. A cinematographic playwright.") 1966: ("The immobile traveler: an introduction to Pablo Neruda") (1973, French) 1967: ("Genius and character of Horacio Quiroga") 1968: ("The exile: life and work of Horacio Quiroga") 1969: ("The other Andrés Bello") 1970: (French, "Borges by himself") (1979, Spanish) (, 1987, Greek) 1976: ("Borges: towards a poetic reading"), erroneous title printed for ("Borges: towards a poetics of reading") (1980, Portuguese) 1978: Jorge Luis Borges: A Literary Biography (1982, Italian) (1983, French) (1985, Spanish) Articles Selected among more than 330 articles and notices: 1955: , in: Número 27 Expanded, in: (1969) 1968: , in: Mundo Nuevo 22 1972: , in: TriQuarterly 25 1974: "Borges, Jorge Luis", in: Encyclopædia Britannica, Macropædia Vol. 3 1974: "Borges, a Reader", in: diacritics 4 1975: , in: Yates, A. Donald, ed. (1975) 1976: , in: Revista Iberoamericana 42 1985: , in: Maldoror 21 "Borges and Derrida. Apothecaries", in: Aizenberg, Edna, ed. (1990). Borges and