Redpill me on Borges

Pro tip : you wish you could

Proto-Argentina-is-white-core

He's got that whole blind-poet thing going for him.

Great introduction to pomo literature, god-tier prose, kind of a wanker at times but he know how to pull it off. I also find his contrarian opinions funny. Overall pretty good.

Proto-reviewbrah-core

The only fantasy writer with artistic merit.

What is the blue-pill on Borges?

he read a lot of other famous authors!

I find it unfathomable that Argentina could once produce men of this calibre, given what is going on there now.

Argentinean here. This man is nothing in my country.

what do you wanna know? he's one of the greatest

Yeah, I can tell, given that most of you folks can't read.

savage

Este man, en mi país no es nadie

¿Y cuál es tu país?

Sick burn.

Este tío no es nadie en mi pais

He's a Paulo Coelho for people familiarized with bibliographic notes.

esto chico no es una cosa en mi cono

^The only poster itt with kys merit

>being this stupid

DUDE
A GAUCHO FINDS A OLD BOOK
THERE IS A MAP IN IT
THAT LEADS TO SOME HISTORIC PLACE THAT *hits bong* DON'T EXIST

DUUUUUDE
5 YEARS LATER THIS GAUCHO
MEETS A SAILOR WHICH SHOW HIM HOW TO REALLY READ THE MAP
THE GAUCHO FOLLOWS IT AND
*shotgun a can of beer and light a joint*
HE ENDS UP IN AN INFINITE LABYRINTH
MADE UP OF MIRRORS
EVERY POSSIBLE COMBINATION OF WORDS IS INSCRIBED ON THOSE MIRRORS
DUUUUUDE

en realidad este hombre es una persona bastante notable en mi país

Only leftist cucks dont like borges desu

>being this mad

lol dude what if like my bellybutton was infinite woaaaaaaaaaah like this library yeah it has like every book ever written but almost every book ever written is absolute shit looooooooooooool thats some twilight zone shit my duuuude

that sounds pretty cool thu
whats the name?

It's sprinkled through his work. Almost everyone who shitposts that way with Borges seems to be fans of his, tbqh, they mention the obvious shit but also some smaller thing that only someone who at least reread his books would remember.

Time to go back to your anime, kid

Those are common themes and topoi in Borges' short stories, although they're usually more mysterious and powerful than the trash in the post I wrote. Read Ficciones, Aleph and Inquisiciones. you could read all of them in maybe 5 to 6 hours, so really give it a try. Those collections are what kickstarted in me love for literature.

>Hey man, what if, like, someone could remember EVERYTHING.

>And they could just look at grapes, and just get it the same way we get, like, a triangle

*borges takes a massive hit*

>Woah and what if there was, a library, but this library, this library had EVERY book in it

*borges exhales*

>Man what if you were reading about greek tragedy, but you like, didn't even know what a play was. That would be crazy haha

roasted 'n toasted