I am not enjoying it as well as I expected. I was expecting more cerebral works, but some of these are more thought experiments than actual stories. And I think I don't possess a wide enough knowledge of texts to understand all the references Borges keeps making in the "fictions".Going to finish it nonetheless.
Thought experiments are fun. You might find him overrated but Borges is a pretty inoffensive writer who's nigh-impossible to hate, just like Flaubert.
>>25191932I don't hate or overrate him. I just feel like I don't have the schema to approach him
>>25191910It's just those "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" tier stories that Lovecraft did a handful of ad nauseaem but slightly more boring.
>>25191910Theres been like 10 threads in a row calling Ficciones bad and theres hardly ever any pushback. Im not sure how it climbs so high in the yearly rankings.
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Grim how /lit/ nowadays gets filtered by Borges.
>>25192524It’s an evergreen classic that almost everyone who would browse a literature board has read and it’s the sort of thing that lurkers and sci fi/ fantasy readers who don’t post outside their general much might rate highly.
>>25191951Just get a schema and you'll approach him no problem
>>25192534Was Nabokov a hole? cause he speaks like one.Who can take seriously such a vapid remark. Only pseuds or women.
>>25192534Average lit/ intellectual capability. Copying Nabokov quotes found on Reddit or Twitter, then acting like a smug cat. Has anybody important ever praised Nabokov, by the way? Updike and women, yeah...
Borges writes parabolic stories
>>25193117What an ugly mechanical word. Just say he wrote parables.
