The Other (short story)

"The Other"
Author	Jorge Luis Borges
Original title	"El otro"
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish
Series	12
Genre(s)	Fantasy, short story
Published in	The Book of Sand
Publisher	Imprenta de Francisco A. Colombo, Buenos Aires
Media type	Print
Publication date	1972

"The Other" (original Spanish title: "El otro") is a 1972 short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), collected in the anthology The Book of Sand (1975, English translation 1977).

Plot summary

A meeting between an older Borges and a younger Borges occurs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the dialogue that results, the young man refers to the novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem by Dostoevsky. While the younger man cites his romantic vision about a brotherhood of man, the older Borges reveals his doubt about the existence of a single man. Following incorrect information that the first provides, elder Borges concludes that it is a real episode for him, but a dream for the younger.

Jorge Luis Borges

Bibliography

Original
collections

A Universal History of Infamy "On Exactitude in Science"

Ficciones "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" "The Circular Ruins" "The Lottery in Babylon" "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" "The Library of Babel" "The Garden of Forking Paths" "Funes the Memorious" "The Form of the Sword" "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" "Death and the Compass" "The Secret Miracle" "Three Versions of Judas" "The End" "The Sect of the Phoenix" "The South"

The Aleph "The Immortal" "The Dead Man" "The Theologians" "Emma Zunz" "The House of Asterion" "Deutsches Requiem" "Averroes's Search" "The Zahir" "The Writing of the God" "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" "The Wait" "The Aleph"

Otras Inquisiciones (1937-1952) "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"

Dreamtigers "Borges and I"

Dr. Brodie's Report "The Encounter" "The Gospel According to Mark"

The Book of Sand "The Other" "Ulrikke" "The Congress" "There Are More Things" "The Disk" "The Book of Sand"

Shakespeare's Memory "Blue Tigers" "Shakespeare's Memory"

Other works

Fictional works,
characters etc.

Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim
H. Bustos Domecq
Pedro Mata
Uqbar