| Author | Edwin Morgan ( Jorge Luis Borges) |
| Title | The Shadow of the Players (La sombra de las jugadas) |
| Medium | Short Story |
| Original Language | Spanish |
| Original Publication Date | 1955 |
| Original Source | “Cuentos breves y extraordinarios” by Jorge Luis Borges and Bioy Casares English version in “The Book of Fantasy” by the same authors |
| Source Type | Collection |
| Translator | Borges, Casares, and Ocampo |
| Additional Publication Information | The author in English is displayed as “Edwin Morgan”, a pseudonym. Original Title: “La sombra de las jugadas”. English version published in 1988. In the Eglish version, the story is cited to have appeared in “The Week-End Companion to Wales and Cornwall (Chester, 1929)” which is an apocryphal book referenced by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, created by the authors as a literary device or a “false citation”. |
(1955) The Shadow of the Players (La sombra de las jugadas)
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