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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Babel

My mind is succesfully blown.

Does anyone know similar things like this?

>> No.1537381

His other stuff.

>> No.1537411

Kobo Abe
Some of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

>> No.1537434

It was my intro to Borges, too. Crazy good stuff. Grab 'Labyrinths' if you like it, else go the whole hog and get Borges' 'Collected Fictions'.

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>>1537379
"The Name of the Rose" features a labyrinthine library, presided over by a blind monk named Jorge of Burgos.

>> No.1537758

Italo Calvino. Ted Chiang.

>> No.1537759

Fucking love Borges!

>> No.1537760

Haha, yeah. Now read "The Garden of Forking Paths."

>> No.1537777

Donald Barthelme.

http://www.eskimo.com/~jessamyn/barth/

>> No.1537819

>/lit/ in a nutshell

>i just read this amazing book, it was incredible
>let's not discuss it or anything, just give me recommendations for things "just like it"

Danielle Steel.

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>> No.1537872

>>1537527
OP here, I haven't read it, but I saw the movie, it was nice.

>>1537760
hmm I'll check this out, thanks

>> No.1538747

Borges is/was one favourite authors. I understand, He's treated like something of a god in Spanish/Argentinian circles, but criminally neglected in the English-speaking world.

His writing is so evocative, I don't understand why maybe 2-3 movies I can think of (none in English) are based around his works.

>> No.1538764

>>1538747

Borges is well-known and highly respected in America. I don't know what you're talking about. Most readers worth their salt have read at least some Borges.

>> No.1539108

>>1538764
Anon is right. Also: this:
A Dialogue About a Dialogue :: J. L. Borges

A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and we couldn’t see each other’s faces. With an offhandedness or gentleness more convincing than passion would have been, Macedonio Fernandez’ voice said once more that the soul is immortal. He assured me that the death of the body is altogether insignificant, and that dying has to be the most unimportant thing that can happen to a man. I was playing with Macedonio’s pocketknife, opening and closing it. A nearby accordion was infinitely dispatching La Comparsita, that dismaying trifle that so many people like because it’s been misrepresented to them as being old. . . . I suggested to Macedonio that we kill ourselves, so we might have our discussion without all the racket.

Z: (mockingly) But I suspect that at the last moment you reconsidered.

A: (now deep in mysticism) Quite frankly, I don’t remember whether we committed suicide that night or not.

>> No.1539135

>>1537527
Borges also inspired the creation of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

>> No.1539139

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius.

There's nothing quite like Borges - I'vesaid before that I think he's one of the best writers of the 20th century, perhaps of all time.

The closest thing I read recently to "Borgesian" was The City & The City by China Mieville. The difference being that if Borges had written it, it would probably be about 13 pages long and even more brainfucking.

>> No.1539149

library of babel is one of his few decent stories. he pretty much sucks though and the hype of him is sickening

>> No.1539156

>>1539139
And that story inspired this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault's_Pendulum