Reading Circle - Ficciones, March 2008

And we’re off… woo hoo!
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Sweet! I’d love to get into this! I’ll see what I can do to get my hands on a copy, maybe turning to Amazon as a last resort. Plus, I need something to add to my signature. :wink:

…That’s weird, the image in the sig isn’t working for me. Either I can take the cup out or…

No signature for me! :tongue:

That’s because LD4all has this new filter (which, I must admit, annoys me to uæ, as it absolutely cannot be bypassed), whose function basically is to get big urls and put spaces in the middle of them. So both links in that code have a space where they shouldn’t: the first in viewtopic.ph_p and the second in /smiley_s. Remove the spaces, and it should work. :wink:

hmf. And I had to figure it out myself. It took like half an hour. I don’t know much about BBCodes.

Hmm, might be joining this :grin: If the book is in norwegian and some library has it…

Petter, look for Labyrinter. Any good library should have it. :wink:

Hehe, I actually found ficciones, but I’m kind of worried that it might be in english now… Hmm, I wonder if Labyrinter is labyrinths translated or ficciones translated… Such as their PC-system is working it seems like that.

Anyways Ficciones is already ordered to be sent from another library in the county (without me even thinking about the possibility that it is in English…), they have “labyrinter” in our library (Me ish LOF library BTW). So if it is as it most likely is that ficciones is in english I’ll quite simply just return it and rent labyrinter (or keep it to read the stories not in labyrinter in english, if i manage to). Argh, I’m not making sense am I ? :wink:

Argh! It seems like it is even in Spanish.

I ordered Ficciones from my local library today. I’ll get it Monday or Tuesday, somewhere around there.

Wait—

I bought Collected Fictions by mistake! :ack: :tongue:

After all, I was a bit tired when I went to Barnes & Noble today. I just didn’t know how tired. :anx: Oh well, there’s no harm done, really. I was planning on going back again tomorrow for something else anyway.

:lol: Sonia, first you should check with wikipedia if you don’t actually have all the stories you’ll need in that book :tongue:

I came back when I realized I was in the clear but you got here first! :lmao: I have what I needed and much more, so I’m more than good. :cool: I’m glad I took a closer look because I would have felt like such a dolt if I went back to buy Ficciones only to come back and realize that I have the entire book already. :tongue:

If it is Labyrinths, you shouldn’t worry :smile: I have read El Aleph and Ficciones, and I’m inviting a (real life) friend who also read El Aleph. Labyrinths is a Yank anthology of Borges fictions, it’s basically made of stories from those two books. So if what you get is the translation to Labyrinths, you’ll have at least two people to discuss the “extra” stories with, and I can find you the ones you’re missing, in English, if you want me to. :smile:

Oh, that wouldn’t be a problem, I’d probably try to buy the Collected Fictions from you if that was the case. :razz: At any rate, I don’t know how the Collected Fictions treat Ficciones, which is actually a collection of (two) books. So if you don’t find “ficciones” in the index, the books you’re looking for are “the garden of forking paths” and “artifices” :wink:

Our library only seems to have the book in spanish :sad:
I would be able to read an english or dutch version and I even would have tried to read a german version. But spanish will not work for me.

Ansie, isn’t there an inter-library borrowing system?

There is, but in all dutch libraries they only have the spanish version. There are other books of him. Maybe one of them is the dutch translation or one of them contains some of the stories. But I don’t no which it could be.

Depends on the country. In France, there are 3 books, Fictions, Labyrinthes et L’Aleph, which have different short stories in them. Fictions contains (amongst other short stories):

  • The Garden of Forking Paths
  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius :crazy:
  • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote :happy:
  • The Circular Ruins :nuu:
  • The Babylon Lottery :happy:
  • The Library of Babel (very famous :grin: )
  • Death and the Compass
  • The Secret Miracle
  • Three Versions of Judas
    and in some editions:
  • The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim :good:

We do have this one in holland.

El Aleph is a great book, but not as easy to read as Ficciones. Not that it demands you be a genious or anything, but it feels like reading philosophy with a plot. :razz:

Man… finally my broke ass got around to ordering Ficciones from Amazon.com! Geez it took me waaaaay to long! Hope the english translation is good and that it gets here soon I’m pumped!

Don’t worry if it takes a while to arrive, there will be at least the whole of March for you to join the discussion. :smile: