Where do I start with Borges?

>>9891511
Dreamtigers

>>9891511
Start with Ficciones. It contains some of his finest short stories, like Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Lottery in Babylon and my personal favorite The Library of Babel. These stories will most probably blow your mind and give you a huge erection. Then go on with The Aleph

>>9891511
Start with the Greeks

Just start with The Complete Fictions.

>>9891511
At the end, of course.

>>9891511
The Greeks.

>>9891548
>These stories will most probably blow your mind and give you a huge erection.
Accurate.

>>9891511
You start by realizing what a gimmicky phony he was:

http://www.cosmoetica.com/B253-DES193.htm

>>9892860
you can feel the salt just by reading

With the footnotes*.
*Footnotes, a common feature in Borges' stories, are inspired by Borges' reading of a bootleg Spanish copy of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace in which the endnotes were transcribed as footnotes.

>>9891511
DUDE. MIRRORS. LAUGH. MY. ASS. OFF.

I've been making my way through Ficciones for the first time. Yeah, this guy has read a lot and half of the allusions/references certainly go over my head.

Ficciones, specifically The Library of Babel. It's short and very profound once you "get" it. The Garden of Forking Paths is highly overrated, though.

>>9891548
this is correct

>>9892860
>In fact, one might term Borges’ fictions fictive essays, except that they are not as poetic and well-written as those by Loren Eiseley nor my wife, Jessica

That's funny.

>>9892860
This thing is a joke, right? I mean, it has to be, to compare JLB to GGM.