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Took me a few reads to get through The Library of Babel. It reads more like an essay on combinatorics and the limits of human comprehension than a short story. It made me think of AI chatbots more times than I would like to admit. Borges' misuse and abuse of mathematical concepts, like infinity, annoyed me before I realized he was describing human experience and not the world.

It's really cumbersome for me to read Jorge as I need to research many references.

I got this collection cuz of A Short Stay in Hell, but another story was part of the basis for another book I read.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius made The Rings of Saturn make more sense.

Acabo de leer el autor del quijote y no entendí nada,lo que parece ser una lectura ligera es todo un ensayó de referencias a otros autores y tecnicismos cuidadosamente encajados que para un lector poco habido y letrado en sus obras se trata de un idioma desconocido