This was the first piece of literature in a good long while that made me cry.
Can you recommend any similar short stories?

what about it made you cry?

>>24520048
Just the last sentence, but I doubt it would've made me cry if I hadn't read the whole story before it.

Borghes has many other short stories you can check out.
Or try one of these:
>J.G. Ballard: The Garden of Time
>J.G. Ballard: The Drowned Giant
>Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God
>Isaac Asimov: The Last Question
>Ted Chiang: Tower of Babylon
>Ted Chiang: Story of Your Life
>Andy Weir: The Egg
>Julio Cortázar: Axolotl
>Italo Calvino: The Distance of the Moon

>>24519962 (OP)
What a fucking pussy lol

>>24520094
>Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God
>Isaac Asimov: The Last Question
I had already read these.
>Andy Weir: The Egg
>Julio Cortázar: Axolotl
I liked the former somewhat but just because I think it plays into a concept that I haven't seen explored enough elsewhere.

I like sci-fi and trippy fantasy stuff but maybe I'm really looking for romance or something.

>>24519962 (OP)
Rating Borges has always been the most Reddit thing about the users on this board. It’s like being over 22 and calling yourself a film aesthete because you rate Quentin Tarantino. I seriously hope op is between 15 -21 because that is only thing thatd make it not cringe

>>24520179
lol hipster. I guess you are the expert on what is the reddit thing to do.

>>24520179
Gotta disagree with ya, here. While some of the most famous Borges stories appeal to certain pop sensibilities of, "wow dude this is so deep!!1" there are also some insanely original stories of his that are obsessed with literary history and the quirks inside it. Half the fun is coming as a learned reader and seeing what parts he's saying are true and what parts he's bending for the story. The r/books crowd doesn't have the patience or foundation of literary knowledge for that.

>>24519962 (OP)
I also cried reading this, although it might have had to do with the circumstances of my reading it. Still, Borges is one of my favorite authors. I recommend all of his other short stories, but without limiting myself to short stories I'd recommend reading Umberto Eco, Ted Chiang, and Roberto Bolano. Eco has a similar fascination with historical and literary miscellanea, and he's a very compelling writer in general. I recommend The Name of the Rose first. I've only read one of Chiang's short story collections, but I think he's very clever and he leans into science fiction. You may also like William Blake's work.

>>24520179
Pretty much this. Good gateway writer but that's about it.

>>24521517
Roberto Bolano is nothing like Borges.

>>24520540
>>24521530
As a short story writer he is superb but there's a reason he never wrote novels and that would be because all of his ideas aren't as interesting as to be fleshed out for a whole book. My comparison to Quentin Tarantino is apt. Tarantino might have enjoyable movies but any 30 or 40 yr old calling him the greatest or saying he cried was moved over them is cringe as hell. That was all I was trying to get at in my post.

>>24520179
>being this contrarian

>>24520525
>>24520540
>>24522360
Don’t listen to this guy >>24520179
He is the real Redditor! Only dilettantes mock the sublime Borges!

> Borges, Jorge Luis. A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. A man of infinite talent.

>>24522539
That was Nabokov's first impression in 1967 and then two years later in 1969 for Time magazine:
>At first Véra and I were delighted by reading him. We felt we were on a portico, but we have learned that there was no house. - Vladimir Nabokov
He's pretty much calling Borges' work shallow and as deep as a puddle.

>>24522562
>He's pretty much calling Borges' work shallow and as deep as a puddle.

And he is entirely correct. They are just lame short stories. If you want Berkeley, Plato or Locke just read those guys. "whoa duuuude what if we are all one thought thinking itself." Luckily Parmenides already has you covered. Borges is like a really lame collection of Twilight Zone episodes