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Is Borges the best short story writer? I finished Ficciones recently and got El Aleph, but I'm looking for something like it to read after. I've read another book by him, but the only story that marked me was Tom Castro.
>inb4: you don't want more Borges, you want a book that makes you feel the same thing you felt while reading Borges
I know, but you get the idea.

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I thought he was until I read Bruno Schulz
I feel like Schulz isn't really for everyone because it's very hard to nail down the point of what the fuck he's talking about but his prose is some of the most consistently beautiful I've ever read, The Street of Crocodiles is the greatest masterpiece of surrealism I've ever read

>> No.13726707

>>13726697
I can't find his books for a reasonable price here. I like to read on paper, I'm gay.

>> No.13726734

>>13726707
Where is here?
Most of his stories are very brief, just like Borges or Kafka, so I don't think you'd be missing much if you pirate his collections digitally. I prefer physical copies too but if you really can't do that, it's better to read him some way.

>> No.13726753

>>13726734
Brazil.
The publishing house that translated his work closed down and no one cares enough to reprint it.

>> No.13726770

>>13726753
That's very sad. You sound like your English is good enough to read him in that though, and he originally wrote in Polish so Portuguese isn't going to be significantly closer to the original than an English translation, unlike Borges.

>> No.13726836

>>13726770
It's not that good. Well, I'll wait then. Thanks.