Just ordered Collected Fictions by Borges. Is he really as good as I've heard?

Just ordered Collected Fictions by Borges. Is he really as good as I've heard?

Yep. You'll love it.

read it yourself and find out.

no

If I could only own 10 books that would be one of them.

Yes, but skip the first set of stories and go directly to Fictions. No one cares about those ones.

Which would the other ones be?

Nah, I liked Iniquity. Don't have to read in order and can always go back to them.

>Just ordered Collected Fictions by Borges. Is he really as good as I've heard?
He's better.

I liked those.

Idk, probably more collected works.
Kafka's The Complete Stories
The Complete Collection of Flannery O'Connor
Bros Karamazov
The Waves
The Holy Bible
Ulysses

shit idk

This man... In my country he is everything.

You got the wrong translation.

Cancel the order and get Irby/Yates.

That translation was the only one that I found on Amazon.

Just ordered Collected Fictions by Borges. Is he really as good as Clifford Lee Sargent says he is?

Borges is the greatest writter to never have recieved a Nobel Prize.

Since the Nobel Prize was created, of course. But still, you can go centuries to the past and not find one like him. The guy predicted a lot of quantum physics (and some IT) before the scientists, there are a couple of books about it, simply amazing.

Probably the best man my country ever produced, in every field.

Hurley's translation is dope

Great reference collection, but take your time with the stories imo

Labrynths? Does it have di Giovanni translations?

What about Kafka though?

Does Collected Fictions contain all of Ficciones and Labyrinths?

Dont know but it wouldn´t make sense, since Labyrinths got some essays aswell.

Yes and the Aleph and the 80s works that are pretty meh, and his early works of historical fiction that were surprisingly great

You got me. Borges and Kafka. Can't think right now of anyone else above those two who would fit in the category.