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Anonymous Thu Jan 26 19:31:52 2017 No.9025586 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favorite Borges story, /lit/?

I've always liked "The Other."

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 26 19:35:38 2017 No.9025602 >>9025586 Piggybacking your thread, what's a good starting point for his work? Any ideal order?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 26 20:14:28 2017 No.9025737 >>9025602 You can pretty much read whatever you like in whatever order. Chronologically, I think his first collection is "The Garden of Forking Paths."

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 26 20:20:43 2017 No.9025765 I always loved Dreamtigers for the idea of a man crafting another from pure imagination. Borges and I, is also very good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 26 21:01:21 2017 No.9025888 >>9025586 Library of Babel master race reporting in

Anonymous Fri Jan 27 07:41:35 2017 No.9027312

>>9025602
Grab the collection called Labyrinths. It has a nice selection from his first two fiction collections (widely regarded as his best), as well as a few great essays (which are equally as, if not more, entertaining than his fiction).

The translation is also good I personally have no issues with Hurley's either but whatever.

>>9025586
I have a major soft spot for Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, but I also love both The Mirror and The Mask, and Undr from The Book of Sand.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 07:53:17 2017 No.9027331 >>9025586 Borges y yo Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 07:54:47 2017 No.9027333 >>9025888 Perfection

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 07:56:06 2017 No.9027338 The Library of Babel Three Versions of Judas Funes the Memorious

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 07:56:44 2017 No.9027341 >>9027333 Anon, did you wait half an hour for the right moment to get those trips? Because that's autism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 08:20:33 2017 No.9027368 >>9025586 That cat's belly is just callin for a pettin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 09:09:21 2017 No.9027480 File: 227 KB, 1252x1252, Wicket W Warrick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9025888 >>9027333 The Aleph

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 09:20:54 2017 No.9027520 >>9027341 No

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 09:22:10 2017 No.9027529 Theologians.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 11:38:10 2017 No.9027848 >>9025888 >>9027333 Synchronicity! see : >>9021444 (OP) >>9021888

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 11:39:53 2017 No.9027853 >>9027848 The Aleph, btw

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 11:45:53 2017 No.9027873 >>9025737 His first collection is 'A History of Iniquity' And I recommend reading him in Chronological order; just get his 'Collected Fictions' and start leafing through. BTW my favourite is 'Circular Ruins'

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 11:48:44 2017 No.9027885 Library of Babel, Funes the Memorious, The God's Script. Basically the ones where Borges lets his imagination run wild instead of trying to forcefeed you how smart and well-read he is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 11:50:21 2017 No.9027891 The one about gauchos and tigers and labyrinths and mirrors.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 13:03:45 2017 No.9028117 >>9027885 >The God's Script I didn't get it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 27 13:42:57 2017 No.9028210 >>9027891 I love that one.

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