The Other (short story)
"The Other" is a 1972 short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, collected in the anthology The Book of Sand.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 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. The story is originally written in Spanish but was translated in English in 1977.
