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7953216 No.7953216 [Reply] [Original]

Name an overrated Borges story and an underrated Borges story.

>Overrated
The Lottery of Babylon

>Underrated
The Double

>> No.7953224

>>7953216
There was a Lovecraft tribute story in one of his collections. I think Book of Sand. Anyway, it was pretty shitty.

Fumes the Memorious is god-tier.

>> No.7953243

>>7953216
>the lottery
>Overrated

me cago de la Kek

>The Double
>Underrated

Pelotudo.

>> No.7953361

>Overrated
The Library of Babel

>Underrated
The Library of Babel

>> No.7953407

>>7953361
This is spot on.

>> No.7953408

>overrated
The Circular Ruins (although it still is pretty good)

>underrated
Three Versions of Judas

>> No.7953447

>>7953224
I agree, his lovecrat tribute story was the weakest in the boook.

>> No.7953505

>(An n number of possible languages use the same vocabulary; in some of them, the symbol library allows the correct definition a ubiquitous and lasting system of hexagonal galleries, but library is bread or pyramid or anything else, and these seven words which define it have another value. You who read me--are you sure of understanding my language?)

I think few people really are.

>> No.7953615

>Underrated
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha

>Overrated
Infinite Jest

>> No.7953649

>>7953216
>Overrated
The entirety of Ficciones

>Underrated
The entirety of Shakespeare's Memory

>> No.7953891

>>7953505
>translation
Wew lad.

>> No.7953906

>Over
Pierre Menard
>Under
Theme of the traitor and the hero