... nor fiction. In "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" and "Three Versions of Judas," Borges presents two individuals struggling with the realization that our present-day conceptions of the past may be inconsistent with the actual truth. By subverting the traditional concepts of hero and traitor, as they are ... However, Borges sets Runeberg against his time period, citing it as a mere turn of fate that "God afford him the twentieth century, and the university town of Lund" (95). Initially, Runeberg believes in the flexibility of textual analyses instead of relying on religious doctrine. Ho...

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