Where do I start with Borges? How is his non-fiction?

>>9980754

Start with The Aleph and Other Stories and then grab Ficciones (that's what I did)

>>9980773
But isn't Ficciones a compilation of all his short stories? Arent stories from the Aleph already in Ficciones?? Otherwhise, what dumbass named it "Fictions" if it doesn't contain all of his fictions?

>>9981130
>what dumbass named it "Fictions" if it doesn't contain all of his fictions?
Why do you think the title has to be exhaustive? Do you think Pensees contains every thought Pascal ever had?

>>9981156
If we don't just call things what they are, what's to stop all meaning from sloshing about, untethered to any basis in reality? If we don't name things for what they are, soon we'll the boundaries between all things dissolving, and our ability to grasp the world floating away like a balloon that's escaped a child's grasp, growing smaller and smaller until it's indistinguishable from the blue of the sky