pragmatist comments on August 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pragmatist 10 August 2012 03:41:15AM *  3 points [-]

Upvoted so hard.

Borges is pretty much my favorite writer of fiction. When I first read him, I frequently experienced a genuine sense of wonder that fiction hadn't ever evoked in me before (and hasn't really since, although Blindsight, Italo Calvino, The Book of the New Sun and some of Nabokov came close).

I recommend picking up his Collected Fictions. All his short stories, very well translated. Beautiful beautiful stuff.

Comment author: APMason 13 August 2012 01:06:23AM 1 point [-]

If you haven't read much other Italo Calvino, "Invisible Cities" is really, really, really great.

Comment author: gwern 13 August 2012 02:17:01AM 1 point [-]

Borges and Calvino are 2 of my favorite authors, and Invisible Cities is my favorite Calvino collection. (And, as seems inevitable for me, I wrote some Calvino fanfiction.)