Thread 24630711

favorite story? for me it's the lottery in babylon

>>24630711 (OP)
we have this thread every 3 days. you already know the answers.

The Circular Ruins.

The Meeting has gotten really high up in my esteem lately, too.

>>24630711 (OP)
Trash writer translated to a trash language
>>>/lgbt/

>>24630711 (OP)
I don’t have a favorite Borges story. Reason being that I am not a 15 yr old who just picked up a book yesterday for the first time. Ergo, Borges would be of no interest to me.

>>24630711 (OP)
The one where Judas was actually the Christ all along

>>24630711 (OP)
Not this shit again.

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>>24630731
You all should work harder, this is lazy.

>>24630711 (OP)
I like Borges. I like the one where the story begins and you are learning of this heroic figure and the more the story goes on things are questioned and the entire truth you had heard is turned on it’s head as you find out the hero was a villain!

Oh oh, or the story where there’s an abstract philosophical idea being explored and the truths are more and more gradually introduced into the society before eventually overtaking it, and soon this new society is born from the old one and whether it be a secret society of Berkeleyists or a lottery, you will know that the old world has given way to a new metaphysical reality we can’t escape.

Oh oh oh OR the one about a detective or a spy maybe, and the more he searches for the target the more he begins to learn the real truth he is actually searching for, the philosophical truth which goes hand in hand with the man he is being sent to assassinate or the serial murderer he is sent to capture.

He is so awesome because he totally isn’t one note at all.

>>24630739
kys shill

>>24630719
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>>24630731
What are we, /mu/? We don't do this shit here.
>>24630711 (OP)
Borges is great. The Theologians is probably my favorite from that collection, but my all-time fav Borges story is Shakespeare's Memory. Beautiful.

>>24630757
I’m >>24630723 and I did a longer comment here >>24630747

(The form of the sword vs theme of traitor and hero)
(Tlon Uqbar and Orbus tertius vs the lottery of Babylon)
(Garden of forking paths vs death and the compass)

These are all essentially the same core story as the other one but with subtle changes. He is a one note writer.

Death and the Compass

literally me

>>24630711 (OP)
Is this better than Ficciones?

>>24630992
Sweet pea, it’s the same thing

>>24630995
Now I won’t read it cause ficciones sucked lmao

should I read the restored Borges (original translation) or a more modern translation? I know borges signed off on the original and his gold digger didn't like the royalty split, but the original translator was his friend and that can cloud peoples judgement.

>>24631228
Borges worked on the di Giovanni translations himself. You can't get much more trustworthy in a translation as far as authorial intent.

>>24630992
>>24630995
The edition in the OP, Ficciones and Labyrinths are all essentially the same book because he had a very limited output.

Labyrinths is I suppose his most concise as it has all of Ficciones along with his nonfiction stuff.

>>24631228
i prefer the hurley translations. his (end)notes in the collected fictions are also worth reading.

I’ve read Labyrinths, The Aleph and The Book of Sand, all in penguin paperbacks. Does this leave me with any blind spots, besides his non-fictions? Also wasn’t as impressed with The Book of Sand desu

>>24630757
You know exactly why all the amerimutt and britbong (annihilation be upon them) faggots in this board have decided Borges is a writer worth reading.

>>24630711 (OP)
The Approach to Al'Mutasim.

>>24630747
>t. a sacred latrine called Qaphqa

>>24631319
The Hurleys are worse than both the Di Giovannis and the Irby/Yates. They were literally commissioned by the whore to rob Di Giovanni of his cut.