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21839915 No.21839915 [Reply] [Original]

Let's have a Borges thread.

What's your favorite story of his?

Do you have a favorite work of nonfiction by him?

Are you excited that his wife is finally dead?

>> No.21839921

>>21839915
There's already a thread up on Uqbar, so I'll shout out author of the quixote, which i've interpreted as a retroactive refutation of The Death of The Author.

>> No.21841047

What happens at the end of The Immortal? Not sure if the story is implying the story is a forgery, that the immortal was all the authors he "quoted", or if he'd just lived so long he forgot that this and that were things he read and not stuff he thought on his own and wrote them down inadvertedly plagiarizing others.

>> No.21841129

THE FOOL & THE PAUOER Priest
ismy favourite. some gay deciever captivateing love story about irish dumhed potattoeeeeeeeez,.

,makes me3 out to IN-SANE. ejit.

welcome to the biggest overlord

>> No.21841133

>>21841129
yeh another trip to durbaville

>> No.21841190

>>21839915
my favorite Borges book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

>> No.21842127

>>21841047
I thought it was closer to the second. It was making a point about how we absorb what we read (or even hear maybe), and a man becomes all men over time. The conceit of the story was just taking that time to infinity and so the protagonist really did become all men and become just the sum of those words.
It has been a while, that's what I remember (heh).