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The Man on the Threshold

Jorge Luis Borges

"The Man on the Threshold" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in La Nación in April 1952 and added to 1952 edition of short story collection Aleph.

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“His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.”

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"The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. "The South" in Ficciones" (1944)

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