When does it get good?

>>9690262
it don't. overhyped author, m'fraid.
he's appealing to a younger mind or someone like nabokov who likes his stories to be puzzles and not literature.
Borges wrote to occupy his mind, not to touch anyone.

>>9690262
when you git good

When you grow up.

It's spanish Poe, what did you expect?

>>9690262

"On the burning February morning Beatriz Viterbo died, after braving an agony that never for a single moment gave way to self-pity or fear, I noticed that the sidewalk billboards around Constitution Plaza were advertising some new brand or other of American cigarettes. The fact pained me, for I realised that the wide and ceaseless universe was already slipping away from her and that this slight change was the first of an endless series."

I know it's not from that collection but if you don't think Borges was fantastic you need to look again.

>>9690290

The whole "Nabokov and Borges never wrote touching things" is such a meme. See the above quote >>9690314

>>9690314
Which translation is that? Are there even any others out there beside Hurley and Di Giovanni?

>>9690262
It doesn't 'get' god, it 'is' good

>>9691891
>it gets God

>>9690310
>>9690290
you guys are retarded.

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After you've read Martin Fierro. And Schopenhauer. And Sherlock Holmes and Poe. And the bunch of other stuff each particular story requires to be understood.

Just read Morel's Invention instead if you're not gonna rid gud, Borges™ is a reader's writer.

Or, hear me out now, it's crazy, but it could work, read something from Borges that aren't his two "magni opi", because they're nothing like them before or after. But hey that isn't on the official literante list, never mind.

>>9690262
Plebian.

>>9690290
It saddens me to see non-hispanics not being able to enjoy the god-tier poetry of Borges.

>>9690262
Page 1, first paragraph.

It never gets good.

>>9691781
>Are there even any others out there beside Hurley and Di Giovanni?
Anthony Kerrigan, who is responsible for the best English version of The Library of Babel in my opinion.

>>9690262
open the first page motherfucker.