/lit/ - Literature

>>14917402
Neither

>>14917402
I love Ficciones. Tlon is my favorite story.

>>14917402
Both

both are good but both are boring.

>>14917402
Both you bitch.

Left, Right one bored me and left no strong impressions like Left

>>14917449
>both are good but both are boring
I read it by pure joy in high school in Mexico and find it funny and really good.

>>14917449
Ficciones is absolutely not boring.

>>14917471
whats are your top 3 stories in the second half

>>14917402
Borges. Fuck novels, peronists and niggers.

>>14917475
Form of the sword is pretty good but part one is obviously a lot better and more interesting.

>>14917402
Borges by far

Dubliners for the soul and Ficciones for the mind

>>14917581
Based post.

Ficciones.

>>14917402
Ficciones is obviously better

>>14917449
based dopamine addicted cumbrain nigger zoomer retard

1a 1b kinda situation

Holy Shit! I'm actually currently in the middle of Ficciones right now!
Well, not quite the middle. Only a few stories in, but still...

>>14917402
>dude books lmao
Borges is such an intellectual i like books too!!

>>14917402
ficciones

>>14917402

>Shelves

I thought it was shelfs this entire time.

>>14917402
I'm working through his collected fictions, and so far I think I like El Aleph better.

>>14918512
go back

>>14917402
Borges, easily.

>>14917402
Right only if you plan on reading the rest of Joyce works

>>14917402
Ficciones is much better

>>14917402
I found Dubliners to be of high quality yet quite forgettable until I read The Dead. All self-realisations, episodes of clarity, obvious hypocrisy had something to them, but the end of The Dead just destroys all of the built-up and shatters the main character so hard, it stuck with me.

>>14917402
If having trouble sleeping you've found the right material

>>14917402
Ficciones,and I just finished Dubliners. both great

>>14917402
Dubliners is the greatest collection of short stories ever written. So it would have to be Dubliners.

>>14919792
tell me more

how do I learn to write stories like Borges lads?

>>14920012
Read the classics like he did.

>>14920225
what classics? is there a bio somewhere?

>>14920012
Try reading his non fiction so you can see how he viewed the world and what he read

>>14920012
There's one curious anecdote about the way he developed his writing; when he was young he will go to the library with his father (a lawyer who needed books for his cases) but because he was so shy it was imposible to ask the librarian for anything so could only read reference books like encyclopedias (especially the Encyclopedia Britannica) and that's how he learned so diverse topics and use that information in his books, and in another interview (close to his finals days) he said that the main books he read were encyclopedias and doubted if there was a book hr ever finished.

I have Labyrinths, am I missing anything by having that instead of Ficciones?

>>14917402
Apples and oranges, but if I really had to choose - Ficciones.

>>14920268
there was a list by Borges himself somewhere

1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
2 & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6 & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16 & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

>>14922460
cont.

34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor's Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74 & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn

>>14920225
>>14920268
>>14921383
>>14922460
>>14922467
thx anons

>>14920225
>>14920281
>>14921383
>>14922460
thx anons