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Comment author: gwern 14 August 2013 12:52:11AM 0 points [-]

Borges also springs to mind. Penguin publish a wonderful selection of his essays, and it's absolutely one of my favourite books - easily as good as his fiction.

Borges is also my favorite top author, and I also think his nonfiction is at least as good as his fiction, which hardly anyone else does! Were we separated at birth?

Comment author: sediment 14 August 2013 10:21:58AM *  0 points [-]

We undoubtedly were. I've also been enjoying his poetry lately, since I found a nice bilingual edition of that. I can't read the Spanish, but it's nice to have it there for comparison's sake, to be able to see what kinds of choices the translators made.