Is Borges difficult to read?

>>9606866
Only Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. His first story of Ficciones.

Well most of his stories can be read in something like 15 minutes, so why not just find out.

>>9606916
I'm poor and his collected fictions is ~$12

>>9606943
Read a PDF of one or two stories. They're only 15 minutes long like that guy said.

>>9606866
Borges is used in a lot of mid-level spanish classes as reading/discussion material. If a college sophomore with no background in literature can understand his short stories, so can you.

>>9606866
Only can speak for the English translation but no, not at all

I don't think so

>>9606866
Not in a sense that his prose is heavily cryptic like Joyce or disjointed. Quite the opposite. On the other hand to fully grasp his subject matter you'd need a cursory understanding of the occult, especially Hermeticism. And philosophically speaking his work is very dense.

>>9606891
I had no trouble with that oen

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>>9607037
"Very dense" is a bit of a stretch. Pic related is one of his more famous pieces, Borges y Yo ("Borges and I" in English). It's got some depth, but hardly enough to require prior reading.

>>9607057
Well there is an exoteric meaning that's easy enough to grasp in many of his vignettes. I just think its a waste if you're not getting the most out of what you are reading.

I read the book of sand in my high school english arts class. I went to a retard (continuation) high school too. That said everyone in the class hated it except me.

>>9607057
This seems pretty easy to grasp, though

The book I read was Labyrinths.

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>>9607102
It is. The Spinoza reference went over my head at first, since I'm not a phil student, but google exists.

Some of his stories are a tad more complex, but unless you obsess over catching every name-drop and reference, they're just shy of light reading.

>>9607039
Then no.

>>9606866
yes he's blind

Not really but you should reread him from time to time