ONEE.NOTES

  The main character from this story is "Fernando Augustin Navaro" but we read the story from the point of view that the reader is the main character. The background around 1970 As the story deliberately leaves many loose ends for readers to interpret creatively. Additionally, like any piece of fiction or horror, not everything needs to follow perfect logical sense. Personally, I believe it’s more about sparking readers' creativity and encouraging them to piece things together, rather than providing all the answers directly. That being said, the most popular theory about the story is that Borges, partly due to being a brilliant writer and scholar, and partly because he knew he was one of "the doomed ones" (aware he was on the eventual victim list), "sensed" the true identity of the fake Navaro (Quietus Est) and deliberately tricked him into believing he was someone else, turning him from the pursuer into the pursued. The entity, as Borges had alr...