José Manuel Cuesta Abad He is a Professor of Literary Theory at the Autonomous University of Madrid and an essayist. His books include: Versus poetry collection (1989) Hermeneutic theory and literature (1991) Fictions of a Crisis: Borges's Poetics and Interpretation (1995) The forms of meaning: studies in poetics and hermeneutics (1997) Poem and enigma (2000) The writing of the instant (2001) The belated word: towards Paul Celan (2001) and Games of Duel: History According to Walter Benjamin (2004).