SOURCE: “Facciones: Fictional Identity and the Face in Borges's ‘La Forma de la Espada,’” in Symposium,Vol. 53, No. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 151–163.
In the following essay, Laraway considers the implications of Borges's strategy of moving between first-and third-person narration in “The Mark of the Sword.”
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