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What collection of short stories of Borges should i get? Are most of his stories worth reading?

>> No.7176268

>>7176253

Everything I've read by Borges is worth the time. Ficciones is a good beginner book and then go from there

>> No.7176269
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7176269

Borges: A Reader

>> No.7176282

>>7176253
Ficciones / Labyrinths

>> No.7176308

Im perticulary looking for the more philosophical ones.

>> No.7176332

>>7176268
What's your favorite borges? I have all his stuff.

>> No.7176341

>>7176253
El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan.

>> No.7176349

>>7176332

The Aleph, hands down.

>> No.7176361

>>7176253
Ficciones, El libro de arena, El aleph...
That's most about it. Kinda unlike him tho. Read Papini if you want to read his prose fictions without the exagerated sophistry.

>> No.7176394

>>7176253
Ficciones/Fictions is a good start.
>picked it up out of curiosity when I was killing time at the library.
>lovely little reading corner with a full moon in the twilight.
>get comfy.jpg
>Finish Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
>Mind Fucked
>Take it out right then and there.

>> No.7176513

I'd argue Dreamtigers is a better start. The concepts are easier to grasp and it's shorter as well.

>> No.7177677

This site has an ebook of the now-unavailable Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations:

https://sites.google.com/site/thebooksofsand/the-short-stories-of-jorge-luis-borges-the-giovanni-translations

The story behind them is interesting too:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/feb/19/jorge-luis-borges-di-giovanni

Basically, Giovanni worked on his translations with Borges, and Borges split the earnings 50/50 with Giovanni. After Borges died, his widow decided to ditch the Giovanni translations, and the newer Penguin translations by Andrew Hurley were commissioned (without that 50/50 money split).

>> No.7177843

>>7176513

apparently large sections of this are missing in the collected and it's better to get it standalone

>> No.7177849

20 bux gets you all of the work you are interested in

>> No.7177861

>>7176253
>What collection of short stories of Borges should i get?
any
>Are most of his stories worth reading?
no. you read, you've read them all. how borgesesque

>> No.7177886

>>7176332

Best book: The Aleph especially the last half from The Other Death onwards are just amazing.

Stories in no real order
Argumentum Ornithologicum
Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan
Pierre Menard
Death and the Compass
Deutsches Requeim
The Gospel According to Mark
Ibn-Hakam + Two Kings
The Other Death
The Disk
The Duel 1&2

His fictions from the 70s on is his lesser work but I enjoy it still.

Today I was reading Deutsches Requeim waiting to see the doctor and a line popped out at me that I glossed over before. It was something about dying for a religion is easier than living it to further this point he points out the countless nameless martyrs of Ephesus vs the hours Paul lived which I thought a funny thing for the fanatic who wrote it to say but very in line with his character.