Comment by lampiaio

Here's an interesting tidbit about Jorge Luis Borges that may have inspired him to write that story. First, some backstory:

  "Under his grandmother's tutelage, Borges learned to read English before he could read Spanish. [...] In Borges's autobiographical essay, he recalled reading even the great Spanish masterpiece, Cervantes's Don Quixote, in English before reading it in Spanish."

The funny thing is, when he finally came across a copy of Don Quixote in its original Spanish... he dismissed it as "a bad translation" of the book he had read in English.