So can we all agree that this is the best short story of all time?

>posting a french story on an english speaking board
congrats op, your pretentiousness level went up

>>9381455
>Borges
>French
fucking wew lad

>>9381442

No, that would be The Overcoat by Gogol, but it's up there.

>>9381455
I really need to stop browsing this board during american prime time

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>>9381455
>calling Borges French
>complaining about foreign languages
>on cabildo discussing paraguayan ñanduti
>mfw

>>9381442
But Borges himself has better short stories such as "El Zahir".

Reminder that Herman Melville with Bartleby the Scrivener reigns supreme.

>>9381442
>not even borges' best

>>9381442
I really liked it, and i had this exact idea about sculpture (fairly unironically) before i read it.

el mejor cuento del mundo es tlon uqbar orbis tertius

giles

Sorry but it's no Overcoat

>>9381442
Why don't you do it

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>Inventing Death of the Author by making fun of it before it existed

You only wish you could be this based.

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>>9381442

>>9381442
It's a great short story. Is it better than The Dead by Joyce? Or In the Penal Colony by Kafka? Hard to say.

>>9381537
Lol no. Why do people like this story so much? I think it's good but that's it

>>9381442
Maybe Tlon uqbar is a better short story, but this is my favourite one too.

There's no need to rank them, all Borges' short stories from Ficciones, Aleph and Inquisiciones are all masterpieces.

>>9381459
>that would be The Overcoat by Gogol

Why do people like this story? I don't understand it. It's mediocre, at best, with a shoehorned ending.

Tell me, I want to see what you see in this.

>>9381455
Solid job at baiting /lit/ autists