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1869566 No.1869566 [Reply] [Original]

Your favorite Borges' short story?

>> No.1869576

The one about Shakespeare! I don't remember the title, but one of my fellow /lit/erateurs was kind enough to lend me the book a while back.

>> No.1869579

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius, or Death and the Compass.

Actually, Death and the Compass.

>> No.1869583

The Library of Babel and the Garden of Forking Paths

>> No.1869598

Library of Babel, The Aleph or the one about the babylonian lottery, I think it was The Lottery.

>> No.1869603

Death and the Compass and Asterion's Home (not sure if its the correct name)

>> No.1869604

>>1869583
anal brofist.jpg

coo yo

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>>1869598

The Lottery in Babylon, i think. It's La lotería en Babilonia in Spanish, anyway.

Death and the Compass is also my favourite - I love the way he reforms and destroys the detective story while still maintaining a gripping and interesting detective story that makes Poe and Leblanc and Doyle shit their fucking pants with incompetence. After La muerte y la brújula, nobody could ever write that kind of ratiocinative detective story ever again, Borges had finished the project, and made it his bitch. So people had to go and write noir and police procedurals instead.

>> No.1869635

Emma Zunz

>> No.1869789

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius

>> No.1869908

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius
Funes or the Memory

>> No.1869921

Library of Babel and Death and the Compass. House of Asterion was pretty cool too, not sure if it's one of my favorites though.

>> No.1869942

The Library of Babel
>>1869616
This pretty much sums up why Borges is one of the greatest ss writers of the century, if not the greatest.

>> No.1869948

Three Versions of Judas
Everyone and No-one (Everything and Nothing)

>> No.1869953

either Pierre Menard or The Theologians

>> No.1869961

I don't know anythign about Borge's except this:
When Alberto mangual was doing to lecture circuit here recently, he told about how he used to read aloud to Borges after he (Borges) went blind. He said he was working as a clerk in a store where Borges used to shop, and Borges asked him to come read aloud to him. Apparently he asked other people to, also. But Borges knew most of what was being read, and always corrected the reader.

>> No.1869965

>>1869961
Sorry, that's Alberto *Manguel* (sp)

>> No.1870078

Las ruinas circulares

>> No.1870154

>>1869953
>Pierre Menard
Hell yes! As a translator, this story holds a very special place in my heart.

>>1869961
>But Borges knew most of what was being read, and always corrected the reader.
that is fucking hilarious

>> No.1870156

>>1869566
War and Peace