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organização dessa antologia a dupla Borges-Bioy aproveitou material da<br />

extinta coluna de Destiempo e Los Anales de Buenos Aires. 664 Como em<br />

1946, o conto “Los dos reyes” é indicado como pertencente a [sic] “The<br />

land of Midian revisited” de Burton. No mais, a sua configuração como<br />

tradução é reforçada pelo prefácio dos editores do livro: “Hemos<br />

interrogado, para ello, textos de diversas naciones y de diversas épocas,<br />

sin omitir las antiguas y generosas fuentes orientales.” 665<br />

Será, pois, somente em 1970, em um depoimento a Norman<br />

Thomas Di Giovanni, agregado a edição de The Aleph and other stories,<br />

que Borges admitirá a sua autoria do conto oriental:<br />

664 BIOY CASARES. Op. cit., p. 74.<br />

The two kings and their two labyrinths<br />

Several elements or personal whims may be found<br />

in this unpresuming fable. Firstly, its Eastern<br />

setting, its deliberate aim to be a page –<br />

overlooked by Lane or Burton – out of the<br />

Arabian Nights. Secondly, that obvious symbol of<br />

perplexity, the maze, given in the story two forms<br />

– that of the traditional labyrinth, and, even more<br />

sinister, that of the unbounded desert. After some<br />

twenty-five years, I am beginning to suspect that<br />

the king of Babylon, with his lust for winding<br />

ways and devious complexity, stands for<br />

civilization, while the Arabian king stands for<br />

unrelieved barbarism. For all I know, the first may<br />

be a porteño and his antagonist, a gaucho. 666<br />

665 BORGES; BIOY CASARES. Cuentos breves y extraordinarios, p. 7.<br />

666 BORGES. [Sobre] The two kings and their two labyrinths. In: DI GIOVANNI. The missing<br />

Borges (III). Disponível em: . Acessado em: 09 mai. 2009.

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