Are there any other writers that appeal to the imagination as

>>9917783
no one?

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>>9917783
Nabokov. Read Pale Fire and Ada

>>9918149
not even close

Very nice Borges documentary on youtube for those interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAM2NJnv3Dk

>>9917783
Italo Calvino, particularly in The Complete Cosmicomics, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, and Invisible Cities.

Not quite as good as Calvino and Borges, but Adolfo Bioy Casares is worth your time.

Marcel Schwob, particularly Imaginary Lives and Double Heart.

italo calvino

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>>9917783
Salvador Dali

>>9918185
Great point. I've changed my mind.

But seriously Pale Fire is endlessly imaginative, and Invitation to a Beaheading reads exactly like a lengthened Borges short

>>9917783
Julio Cortázar. "The Continuity of Parks" is a great short story.

https://collegelit2014.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/the-continuity-of-parks.pdf

>>9918378
Pretty decent, but what makes you say great?

>>9917783
Holy shit Jorge, it's a tiger, run!

Calvino and Umberto Eco

>>9917783
I heard Rodolfo Wilcock has some nice short stories. Italo Calvino gets often called "the Italian Borges", and he's got some points, but their style is very different. I would say that the writer I read that is the most close to Borges' style is Giorgio Manganelli

borges makes me want to learn some spic languages desu

that and working with a hot puerto rican chick

>>9918287
No.

I read this and i honestly think Dali should have kept to painting. The only thing he did while writing was presenting his eccentric personality in a convoluted manner, masking it as literary talent. Now some might like his style, fair enough, but even if do you like his style: i think it's a huge stretch to say he appeals to the imagination as magically as Borges does.

>>9920819
I've only heard the names Wilcock and Manganelli mentioned once before here on /lit/ and that was also within one post. Are you that poster anon? Does sermones contra solicitudinem ring any bells?

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>>9917783
Kafka

>>9920969
I'm not that poster but I really appreciated that post because it made me know my favorite italian writer (Manganelli).
> Does sermones contra solicitudinem ring any bells?
I heard of it. I think it was in the same post. I'm still pissed that I can't buy it on italian amazon

>>9921489
It was, the three books of that post are still on my to-read-list. What is it about Manganelli you like so much, i'm curious, i haven't read anything by him so far.

>>9917783
Bruno Schultz. Thank me later.

Italo Calvino
Copi
Bolaño
Gene Wolfe
Kafka
Silvina Ocampo

>>9921507
In Italian his prose is gorgeous, and in terms of content he's a unique mixture of baroque style and post-modern content. Centuria is a wonderful collection of short (2 pages) stories, which are always smart and remind sometimes of Borges' "cosmic delirium", but in a more sober and compressed way, even if all the stories have a certain "playful" feeling, since Manganelli himself considered tbe book a game.