So far I've read six or seven of Borges' short stories. They're fascinating because of how he starts with an interestesting premise and swiftly develops it to a conclusion. And the conclusion doesn't seem to be just for the purpose of being weird (though they often are strange enough), it ends up being a statement of some philosophical idea.
For instance, the point of Funes the Memorious (en español) is that nominalism, followed consistently, leads to the death of thought. Read it and see what I mean.
What do you think? Should I write something about this for Wikipedia's page on it? They do not have anything on this in the "analysis" section, which is only a stub.
My favorite so far is still The Library of Babel (en español). Maybe I will get around to writing something on this one.
Another thing that you might find interesting is the connection between Borges and G.K. Chesterton, of whom he was an admirer. Borges was Catholic, too, but he seems to be a much more tortured soul than Chesterton, less jovial, and more strange.
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