Where should I start with Borges ?
Can I directly jump into reading him or not ?
Are all his works worth reading, or only some of them ?
Where should I start with Borges ?
Ethan Russell
Dominic Gray
Slight bump
Jaxson Morris
A lot of dumb questions. He’s an easy read and entry level. Don’t overthink it.
Alexander Perry
Just read him dummy, I hate guys like you who are too afraid to just do.
Gabriel Allen
Read him violently. Borges and I.
Jordan Morris
libraryofbabel.info
I love this.
Henry Roberts
hey guys um i know this author is one of the most well-regarded of all time and everything, but do you think hes worth reading?
Hunter Diaz
>one of the most well-regarded of all time
nah
Elijah Kelly
I think the thing I love about his Library of Babel is that is sort of foretells the Internet.
It's the kind of story you want to read with Marshall Mcluhan and Teilhard de Chardin
It appears that Borges even contributed writings to McLuhan's magazine;
mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com
With Borges it's not the narrative of the story that counts; its the metanarrative (sorry I know that's so cringe-making) of the thought systems and their ramifications that take center stage.
Caleb Moore
He is though.
Just read Ficciones Jesus. Can mods start deleting threads with "questions" that could easily be answered if the moron knew how to use Google and Wikipedia?
Matthew Baker
Just get Labyrinths. Almost everything in it is solid gold.
No cringe here, good assessment.
Hudson Lee
>where should I start
>give me the rundown
>how do I into
if it is not learning a new language, maths or Science it doesn’t require prep at all. Philosophy hardly does either, if you have trouble grasping these things, lit and poetry, you’re stupid.
Carson Lee
Luis Bunuel found Borges to be pretentious and self absorbed.
I can see where he would come to this conclusion but I think it's an erroneous conclusion.
Autistic men are incapable of reading the refined subtleties of human emotion in the details of expression in the human face or even an animal's face.
Like autistic men, Borges was blind and that too deprived him of much of the richness of human emotion and expressiveness. Instead he seems to have substituted a kind of philosophical game world where inexorable and surprising results proceed logically from a few arbitrary premises imposed by the narrator.
He was thus incapable of writing an elaborate novel rich in the human experience, but despite that his short stories are very entertaining and thought provoking. There's a lot of amusing truths in his works.
Gavin Gutierrez
>erroneous
Lmao
Jackson Phillips
What's funny about "erroneous"?
Landon Martin
You’re a pretentious faggot pseud that is incapable of saying anything substantive
Kayden Myers
I made a cogent defense of Borges work in the face of Bunuel's dismissal of him.'
I'd be interested in hearing your own substantive contribution to the discussion on Bunuel's work.
Liam Mitchell
Just jump straight into the Collected Fictions, if you must start with one of his most famous stories like The Immortal or Library of Babel. After you've finished the fictions grab the Selected Non-Fictions, then poems.
That's pretty much what's available to you in English. Even in Spanish, it's notoriously difficult to collect the thousands of pages he wrote in a sensible manner. His Collected Works in spanish, the closest thing to an actual publication of his total oeuvre for instance, contains only those pieces he put in books!
Joseph Ramirez
>McLuhan
>Borges
If you start going off about Nabakov and VGHS I'm telling Kantbot
Andrew Moore
That's a really good one; The Immortal is really great.
His most Spenglerian story. Great civilizations exhaust themselves and finally become nothing more than a pile of splendid ruins inhabited by naked troglodytes.
Joseph Turner
I'm not that crazy about Nabokov frankly.
If I was given a choice between reading a stack of Hugh Auchincloss and Vladimir Nabokov right now I'd take the Auchincloss.