Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar are among my favourites.

you are my favorite creator on KZread, You seem to have an intimate knowledge of most authors and literary systems from all eras both ancient and modern, and you make it all straightforward and understandable as well. A great achievement (especially as English is not your first language.). I'm afraid I sometimes come here rather than going to the original because I am getting older now and I just do not have the time! Luckily, over the years, I have read quite a lot!.

@sameerhasham

7 ай бұрын

sincere

Trying to find consciousness in the brain is like popping open a laptop computer and expecting to see all the You Tube videos you’ve ever made.

I'm noticing where Christopher Nolan gets some inspiration from. Amazing video as always thanks for introducing me to Jorge Luis Borges 👍

@chancerobinson5112

8 ай бұрын

Jay: Two worthy commenters on your observation 1.) “The secret to creativity is knowing how to cover your tracks!” A. Einstein 2.) “All artists borrow. Great ones steal!” P. Picasso 😂😮😊

@philongvu3992

8 ай бұрын

Every word you use has is own history, every knowledge or tool already has other discovery or invented it. No one created everything from ground zero, but creatively person or artist can use what is given to created more new stuff, learn from other artist and thinker, or get inspired is not stolen, and even the artist come up with certain thing another artists learn from not sure a original creator, even sometime they just make that become popular or notable, also with many thinker as well. More like combination from large source of knowledge and expierience of previous generation, and even sometime required more creativity and effort to give it new form of expression. And it is important too, to transfer and peseve it, that would be great lost if the great thing already exists got forgotten. Even most people don't read Shakespeare they still know what Shakespearian is.

such an incredible and underappreciated channel. i love everything about your videos, from the pace to your voice to the transitions to the visuals... keep producing content please!

I live in latinamerica. Jorge Luis Borges wrote some of the most utterly brilliant short stories of history. Read his "Fictions" and "The Aleph".

@void_god

7 ай бұрын

Their? You mean his, right?

@alejandroangeles8587

7 ай бұрын

@@void_god Right. Sometimes people forget that not all comments are written by persons with an absolute flawless english knowledge.

@alejandroangeles8587

7 ай бұрын

@@void_god People with english as it's first language can loose the opportunity to read Borges, Rulfo, Cortazar or García Márquez to name a few.

@void_god

7 ай бұрын

I apologise bro. I thought you were a they/them lgbtq activist.

@alejandroangeles8587

7 ай бұрын

@@void_god NO problem man. And no. Spanish is my first language. And Borges and Rulfo are 2 of the Best writers that Latinamerica has ever produced. García Márquez is better known. Rulfo and Borges are at least at the same level. Believe me.

You present difficult stories in an irresistible way. I want to experience the atmosphere, even if I don't understand it.

Absolutely brilliant analysis, friend. I loved the way you had strung the narrative from one idea leading into another. Please keep these videos coming. Best Regards, Aranya

Wow thank you! Great! I’m pulling out his poems tomorrow thanks so much for this beautiful, informed reminder of one such as Borges

I deliberately took a break from your work to let new videos pile up that I could watch with renewed vigor, and boy oh boy, you have been busy! Super excited to listen, and thank you.

I love his Funes the Memorious, Death and the Compass and On Reading. Norman Thomas di Giovanni's English translations are my favorite.

Geoffrey Chaucer next please.

Make sure separate playlist for philosophies video. It will help much

This was excellent, thank you very much.

Borges was a reader of Swedenborg and Schopenhauer, but also an admirer of Stevenson. So, in my opinion, the best way to begin reading him are not his more philosophical tales , but others that, at least firstly, seem to be "genre" short stories. This is the case of "Death and the Compass" that you mentioned and "Emma Zunz" (two crime stories), ""The Gospel According to Mark"( a most accomplished thriller), "There Are More Things" ( the original title is in English, because is a kind of hommage-rebuke to Lovecraft) ( a terror tale) or "The Dead" ( a border story). I found your video most interesting, but I think you forgot to mention that irony is consubstancial to him. In the same example of "The Aleph"when we, the readers, are submerged in metaphysical images, he can see , among a collection of things that represent the Universe, , "in a drawer of the desk (and the writing shook me) unbelievably precise obscene letters that Beatriz addressed to Carlos Argentino"...and we discover that Borges is (also) playing with us. A good example is his short text "On Rigour in Science" that I find a good example to begin to understand his humour.

This is really well done. I don’t think I’ll ever agree with anyone with respect to meanings in “The Aleph,” but those are mine to explicate and present at some point.

Brilliant video, thank you maestro!! Could you someday work your magic on the Irish writer Flan O Brien, especially his brilliant novel 'The third policeman '. Keep up the great work.

Thanks very much❤❤

Excellent fiction, but his "Dreamtigers" may be my all time favorite collection of anything. He was a powerful thinker.

Hi FIction Beast. I’m from Argentina and I’m glad to see Borges here. I just wanted to comment here that I’m not sure what was the relationship he had with occultism. As certain elements of cabala are obviously in his works. In a more general note I’d like to ask you if you could take this interesting topics of literature and occultism. Specially Hermeticism and all things around Hermes Trimegistus. Also would be interesting to know about freemasonry in literature. I just started to imagine that some writers saw their art as a kind of magic or an alchemy that transformed the plumb of the dull mundane reality into the gold of literally beauty. I love you work! Thanks man!

Always a great day when FB uploads

Hello Sir, I am surprised that you have no video regarding Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet. One of my fav books btw. If you have a video on it, maybe more people will read that book :)

Luckily I will start reading his work soon as I forgot about his book Ficionnes.

7:59 DFW might have taken a cue from this one for his character with the random fact intrusions

Do you still have your patron or supporter? (You mentioned in one of your video ). I am asking this because I was very happy to hear that and expected you to repeat telling us in the beginning of each and every video that there is a supporter.

Thank you for introducing us to this great short story writer. It would be a great favor if you make a video about Agatha Christie. Please!

@ayeshasipra9044

8 ай бұрын

Or joan didon too

Wonderfully done as usual. If you don't mind sharing this publically Fiction Beast, what are your academic qualifications?

@MuttshackAdoptions

7 ай бұрын

Academia has nothing to do with intelligence. This man is brilliant!

Yesterday I saw a link to buy a book on psychology somewhere on your other channel or blog, can’t find it now, would u please help ?

@Fiction_Beast

7 ай бұрын

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Anybody have thoughts on a beginner/intermediate short story to start with for Borges? Some of his most well known ones have made my brain hurt (but in a good way lol)

@kingfisher9553

8 ай бұрын

Brain hurt is a good thing. If you can take a nap right after reading and get that stuff into the unconscious, all the better. "Dream Tigers" is a great little chapbook.

@cheri238

8 ай бұрын

​@@kingfisher9553 Snow Leopards 🐆

Treatise on the urgency of reading Borges

such intelligent words have few views .. 21 century 😂

Am I falling or flying

I like reading Borges whenever he's not throwing Nazi or Jewish symbolism or direct mention in... I looked it up one day after reading a story of his that seemed strangely sympathetic and it turned out he was a kind of a hard liner that thought that the Nazis didn't do enough. He wrote a story about a Nazi getting executed who didn't regret a thing. I wouldn't say he respected all cultures equally...

Nonsense