SOURCE: “The False Artaxerxes: Borges and the Dream of Chess,” in New Literary History, edited by Ralph Cohen, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 425–45.
In the following essay, Irwin uses psychoanalytic methodology to postulate the symbolic significance of chess for Borges.
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