/lit/ - Literature

>>18590440
>go blind
>die
>wake up in the library
>borges is waiting for me
>wander for eternity

>>18565060
Some of pic related's essays. Very good in general but I lack culture for some of them, will return soon.

Other than that, Cortázar's short stories and the Quixote

I'll just rank short stories
>al-mu'tasin
>the garden of forking paths
>el aleph
>his cameo in name of the rose
>library of babel
>the babylonian lottery
>the theologians
>the secret miracle
the garden of forking paths is art and al-mu'tasin got me to read attar

>>18325241
>reflexive Jew worship is so gross
guess borges goes into the trash can too, is that it anon?

>>18021762
my reads from last year;
>lost horizon
>a river runs through it
>screwtape letters
>name of the rose
>storm of steel
>canticle for leibowitz
>eumeswil
>borges' ficciones
>conference of the bird
>desert solitaire
>some works of irving
>some of the icelandic sagas
>some schulz
>new testament
>misc theology books
not a super impressive list but I'm balancing school too
next up will probably be a month in the country by carr and something by milorad pavic or danilo kis
t. 20yo zoomer

>>18009940
when I die I will wake in the library
borges is waiting for me

>>17978213
>Jorge Luis Borges: Complete Stories
this would not be good for your long term sanity, but I support it

>>17897202
Most of his stories are critiques and analysis of stories he made up. Others are stories he took the time to write parts of. Some are actual stories, and those often discuss mystical properties (usually of books) and thinking about them spatially and temporally. I.e. books that are labyrinths, books that are solved incorrectly and rely on the reader's reading to be solved, characters that realize they're characters and disappear once you fully imagine them, and of course actual labyrinths.

>>17894062
definitely not intro but I'm really enjoying the conference of the birds right now
not even a muslim, it's just a beautiful poem

>>17809154
everything borges ever wrote
milorad pavic's works
junger's eumeswil (not in the sense that you mean, but it's basically his essay on the concept and death of history)
those are my three big go to /lit/-tier authors besides eco, so that's it from me

>>17755957
>reader reading the story makes the character realize he's a mental image created by the reader

yes, when I die I want to wake up in the library
borges is waiting for me

>>17671972
Why he got the pan on his head? Is it a metaphor? Does it have something to do with labyrinths? I-I don't know...

I’ve tried to read it a couple of times. Read about 500 pages. I just did’t like it. It’s a novel of ideas; good prose, antiquated thoughts. Or maybe I got filtered, because the concept of a horse being a genius goes beyond me.

Read the first chapter. Now imagine if you would like to read 1500 pages of the equivalent of that verbose description of the weather.

Who are your favourite 20th century writers?

Who are your favourite 20th century writers?

https://www.goodreads.com/eduardordz

>The length of the novelistic genre does not conform either to the darkness of my eyes, nor to the brevity of human life. I can count the books - the Arabian Nights, let's say, or the Orlando Furioso - in which the essence itself is inseparable from the length, because they give us the certainty that we can lose ourselves in their pages as in a dream or a song; in general, however, abundance of pages is a promise of boredom or mere routine.
HOLY MOTHER OF BASED

Ayer antes de dormir escuché Luvina de la voz de Rulfo. Qué cuentito, señores.

I read Pedro Páramo many years ago, but disliked it immensely. Accustomed as I was to more realistic and obvious narration, I got filtered. The time is now, my friends, to read it again with new eyes.

Hello Spanish speaking friends! Can you please recommend me some good books in Spanish that have a relatively easy vocabulary? I have Borges' "Cuentos Completos" but his style is not the easiest.