SOURCE: “Borges's Dark Mirror,” in New York Review of Books, Vol. 45, No. 16, October 22, 1998, pp. 80–82
In the following review of Collected Fictions, a new translation of Borges's short fiction, Coetzee traces the development of Borges's stories, evaluates the new translation, and discusses the peculiar problems that arise when the author has translated some of his own work.
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