Jorge Luis Borges

[Harold_Z]

I'm a little over 100 pages into this:

I picked it up on the recommendation of a friend. I'm impressed. It's humorous, serious, Fantastic, historical, sci-fyish and many more things. Borges is so good that I felt he deserved a thread of his own rather than a mention in the reading lately thread. I'm reading a translation - I can only imagine that it is even better in Spanish, the language in which it was written.

It's a keeper. I can see myself returning to this frequently - something I rarely do.

I'll be picking up Selected non-fiction next.

[clifford_thornton]

Amen.

I hope you get more into his work, he's fantastic!

[brownie]

You're entering Borgesland?

Congratulations, you're into a whole continent.

Been reading him for years and still exploring the territory. One of the few writers you never get tired of!

[BruceH]

Total agreement here! I've been a big Borges fan ever since first reading the Labyrinths collection at age of 14. Now that I think of it, he's probably one of the few writers I liked then that I still like now.

[Stefan Wood]

Look for the poetry book as well, which is part of that series. Borges is one of my favorite authors.

[mikeweil]

Add me to the Borges aficionados list. His complete works translated into fine German are on the shelf in my sleeping room.

It's a shame he didn't get the nobel prize.

Edited November 18, 2007 by mikeweil

[Jim Alfredson]

I have that book. Need to dig it out and revisit. Thanks for the reminder.

[Guy Berger]

Started reading this... wow. I can tell that I'll need to re-read these stories many times to even remotely understand them.

- Tlon-Guy

[Jim Alfredson]

I have that book. Need to dig it out and revisit. Thanks for the reminder.

As I was reading this thread I was thinking the above. Then I see I wrote the above two years ago.

My mind is already failing.

I still need to dig this book out and revisit it.

[mikeweil]

Same here ... ... both parts of your message, that is.

Edited August 29, 2009 by mikeweil

[Larry Kart]

"Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" not only is a great story, but it also predicts and explains the whole Wynton Marsalis/J@LC phenomenon, some 40 years before the fact. See "hronir," in particular.

[Harold_Z]

"Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" not only is a great story, but it also predicts and explains the whole Wynton Marsalis/J@LC phenomenon, some 40 years before the fact. See "hronir," in particular.

[Harold_Z]

Borges is a keeper. I'm still picking up the Fictions and rereading them. "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a gem among gems and "The Aleph" is another.

Also....It still fascinates me that Borges wrote a fiction about Monk Eastman. Actually one of his earliest fictions.