We had a literary theory seminar at college, and I read this text for the first time therein. The arguments for a reading of a historical difference between the

We had a literary theory seminar at college, and I read this text for the first time therein. The arguments for a reading of a historical difference between the "translations" falls apart when you show that the "history" is constructed therein: and such was my reading, Borges is making a magic trick which makes you think that there is such a thing as historical difference by inventing an impossible condition where you think the only reason the two different texts are different is because two different people wrote them, even though Borges authored neither.