/lit/ - Literature

>tfw reading "The Immortals"

What the fuck, this freaked me out. I read it years ago and it left a mild impression on me, but I reread it just today and it's absolutely terrifying. I didn't know Borges could do sci-fi horror so well.

Supposedly Borges once wrote a review of Joyce's Ulysses. Does anyone know where I can find it? I've been able to find excerpts, but not the entire review.

>reading "Death and the Compass"
>that twist at the end

Sometimes I forget just how clever Borges can be. You get a bit caught up in the reading he's done and the reading he pretends to do, you forget he can weave a rather nice plot when he wants.

"The Aleph" is actually very funny in large parts. Borges has a very dry sense of humor when he wants. It almost feels English, like something out of Wodehouse. His comments on the absurdities of Daneri are extremely amusing.

Of course it goes without saying that the description of the Aleph itself is breathtaking.

Favorite story, bros?

For me it's either "The Double" or "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius."

Actually, I also like "The Two Kings and their two Labyrinths."

>>19036571
snorges

Borges has to be up there.

>normalfags are aware of him

I went to public school and four years of undergrad and I would not know Borges existed if he had never been mentioned on /lit/. He never came up once in college and he sure as hell never came up in high school.

I hate this blind dilettante faggot so much. I hate his unfinished ideas that he tries to pass off as stories. I hate his philosemitic, kabbalistic obfuscation of the truth. I hate his pedantic and insecure recitation of all the other books he's read. Neocon midwit fuck.

>>18640078
Joyce wishes he were half as good as Borges.

I am looking at getting collections of short stories that are great. So far I've read a lot of Borges' short stories and a lot of Hawthorne's short stories. What's next? I've heard Salinger's short story collection is good.

>>18535407
that faggot created the idea of meme, now the world is more retarded thanks to him

Lately I'm feeling an overpowering urge to go full Borges and just start referring people to thinkers and writers that are totally made up. I'm somewhat active on social media, and I'm strongly tempted to start writing tweets and Facebook posts about writers and thinkers who do not exist. I have done some corporate writing and some copywriting on a freelance basis, so I know how to bullshit in a way that draws normalfags in and makes them nod along. I wonder if I can get whole swaths of my social media spheres to start unironically commenting on and sharing the "writings" of people who do not exist at all.

Is Pierre Menard the greatest French writer of the 20th Century?

It's not his most famous story, or probably even his best, but my favorite has always been "The Other." Maybe it's because it was the first Borges story I ever read, so it holds sentimental value for me. But I also feel like it's a good introduction to Borges, and it contains many of his main themes and concerns in a very elemental way.

What do we think about this man, /lit/?

How well read was Borges?

What's the verdict?

>In James Joyce we are also given a twofold work. We have these two vast and—why not say it?—unreadable novels, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
>unreadable novels

>Joyce’s Ulysses: … I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having only examined bits and pieces

What did he mean by this?