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The story is an ostensibly autobiographical account of Borges meeting his younger, 19-year-old self. The young and old versions of Borges disagree on their approaches to fiction and poetry, as well as their attitude toward
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Kristal, Efraín (2013). "The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory". In Williamson, Edwin (ed.).
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Short story
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
Spanish
Fantasy
short story
The Book of Sand
Spanish
1972
Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Sand
communism
Giovanni Papini
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Double: A Petersburg Poem
Dostoevsky

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