r/Borges

Hi there,

I am a huge fan of Borges’s short stories and have written a ten part drama that is set in The Library of Babel universe. It has been on sale on Amazon since Dec 2025. Although it’s a fantastic piece of work that does much to expand on the original concept it has received very little attention. This being a Borges subreddit I think it should be of interest to at least some of you and would like to offer free paperback copies (shipping included) to five people willing to provide honest reviews on Amazon.

For those interested please click on the following link.

https://denim-lychee-k6bm.squarespace.com/babel-review

Thank you very much for your time:)

Very Bad Wizards is a philosophy podcast that occasionally covers the works of Jorge Luis Borges.

I have compiled every Borges episode below. Highly recommend for any Borges fan!

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Episode 144: Borges' Babylon (“The Library of Babel”)

July 24^(th), 2018

 

Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden (“The Garden of Forking Paths”)

Aug 7,2018 

 

Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo ("Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")

Dec 18, 2018 

 

Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")

Dec 10, 2019 

 

Episode 192: Postmodern Wet Dreams (" Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”)

Jul 7,2020

 

Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors (“Emma Zunz”)

August 17, 2021

 

Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (“Funes the Memorious”)

Sep 6, 2022

 

Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos (“The Immortal”)

December 20,2022

 

Episode 275: The Ineffable Center (“The Aleph")

 Dec 26, 2023

 

Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry ("Death and the Compass")

Apr 16, 2024

 

Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? ("The Circular Ruins")

Sep 24, 2024

 

Episode 308: The Gray Man who Dreamed ("Shakespeare's Memory”)

May 6, 2025

 

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now (“A New Refutation of Time”)

 July 29th, 2025

Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other")

May 12, 2026

Nada especial, solamente quiero contar mi experiencia, estoy terminando de leer Ficciones, es mi primer interacción con Borges, al principio me intereso el primer cuento sobre Tlön, tuve que leerlo con mucha atención sobretodo cuando explica la forma de percibir el tiempo de sus habitantes, este cuento me gusto. Seguí leyendo, entre cuento y cuento, algunos me costaba bastante entenderlos y otros me iban interesando por su forma de explayar una idea loca pero nada que me atrapara del todo, hasta que llegue al jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, este cuento fue un antes y después de leer a Borges y mi interés subió bastante. Ahora mismo estoy terminando Artificios, estoy bastante enganchado con su leída, cada cuento que sigue me parece mejor que el anterior.

En resumen, empece leyéndolo vagamente con algo de interés o curiosidad y ahora lo estoy disfrutando bastante, sobretodo Artificios