Just finished this. I only liked one of the stories (the one with the sleeping dude), the rest was incomprehensible pseud garbage. This book does NOT deserve the praise it gets.
>>23316211I've never read Ficciones, I've only read Labyrinths and The Aleph, but Borges—incomprehensible? Dude...you've been filtered.
>>23316211It's ok to be filtered but don't be proud of it anon
>>23316211He does what he sets out to do but probably you want something else. In my experience, his stories often feel a bit like a restaurant giving you a description of a meal instead of the meal itself. If you want emotional food you can actually eat, read someone else.