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6084336 No.6084336 [Reply] [Original]

That library of Babel was something else

What was your favorite short story from Borges?

>> No.6084359

the house of asterion, garden of forking paths

>> No.6084364

Death and the Compass

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>>6084336
A lot of them are really nice. The Aleph, The House of Asteron, The lottery of Babylon, pictured.

>> No.6084380

>>6084336
Fumes the memorious, or
the circular ruins

>> No.6084393

>>6084336

El otro, Emma Zunz y el inmortal

>> No.6084399

>>6084336
Mutations or Parable of Cervantes and Don Quijote

>> No.6084401

Three Versions of Judas, no doubt. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote is a close second.

>> No.6084408

>>6084401
I forgot about that one!

>> No.6084420

>>6084401
>Three Versions of Judas

this one is pretty cool

OP read Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius

>Inb4 people mention nearly every short story he wrote

>> No.6084447

>>6084401
>>6084420
lol, I read three versions of judas when I was like 12 years old and didn't understand what the hell it was

>> No.6084452

I like the one where detective fiction meets some esoteric philosophical or religious concept.

>> No.6084469

The Aleph, The Teologans and The Immortal.

>> No.6085739

I like the one where he uses many words to not form a story and doesn't conclude the non-story

>> No.6085748

I quite like the Improbable Imposter Tom Castro

>> No.6085868

Deutsches Requiem

>> No.6086569

>>6085739
I lol'd

>> No.6086852

the shitty one about infinite.

>> No.6087475

Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote, An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain, The Library of babel, Funes the Memorious, The House of Asterion.

The Library of Babel is the best imo.

>> No.6087483

>>6086852
kek

>> No.6087544

>>6084336
It was indeed the library, by far. Everything else is kind of meh.

>> No.6087550

>>6084336
La muerte y la brújula or El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

>> No.6087604

>>6085739
You mean the garden of shagging dogs?

>> No.6087985

the one with the labyrinths

>> No.6088008

>>6084336
Funes, and his memory

>> No.6088057
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La Casa de Asterión
Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius
El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan

>> No.6090123

La biblioteca de Babel
El libro de arena
El Aleph

>> No.6090137

his end and his beginning