{"id":13139,"date":"2015-04-07T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/75-books-that-jorge-luis-borges-thinks-you-should\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:42:42","slug":"75-books-that-jorge-luis-borges-thinks-you-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/75-books-that-jorge-luis-borges-thinks-you-should\/","title":{"rendered":"75 books that Jorge Luis Borges thinks you should have in your bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observando.net\/post\/113873580806\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">observando<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/6c8922070d883f404289a6bb1d8f6577\/tumblr_inline_nld0q7HDNP1qz4d4b.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>1. Stories by <b>Julio Cort\u00e1zar<\/b><br \/>2. &amp; 3. The <b>Apocryphal Gospels<\/b><br \/>4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by <b>Franz Kafka<\/b><br \/>5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by <b>G.K. Chesterton<\/b><br \/>6. &amp; 7. The Moonstone by <b>Wilkie Collins<\/b><br \/>8. The Intelligence of Flowers by <b>Maurice Maeterlinck<\/b><br \/>9. The Desert of the Tartars by <b>Dino Buzzati<\/b><br \/>10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by <b>Henrik Ibsen<\/b><br \/>11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by <b>E\u00e7a de Queir\u00f3s<\/b><br \/>12. The Jesuit Empire by <b>Leopoldo Lugones<\/b><br \/>13. The Counterfeiters by <b>Andr\u00e9 Gide<\/b><br \/>14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by <b>H.G. Wells<\/b><br \/>15. The Greek Myths by <b>Robert Graves<\/b><br \/>16. &amp; 17. Demons by <b>Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/b><br \/>18. Mathematics and the Imagination by <b>Edward Kasner<\/b><br \/>19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by <b>Eugene O\u2019Neill<\/b><br \/>20. Tales of Ise by <b>Ariwara no Narihara<\/b><br \/>21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by <b>Herman Melville<\/b><br \/>22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by <b>Giovanni Papini<\/b><br \/>23. The Three Impostors<br \/>24. Songs of Songs tr. by <b>Fray Luis de Le\u00f3n<\/b><br \/>25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by <b>Fray Luis de Le\u00f3n<\/b><br \/>26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by <b>Joseph Conrad<\/b><br \/>27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by <b>Edward Gibbon<\/b><br \/>28. Essays &amp; Dialogues by <b>Oscar Wilde<\/b><br \/>29. Barbarian in Asia by <b>Henri Michaux<\/b><br \/>30. The Glass Bead Game by <b>Hermann Hesse<\/b><br \/>31. Buried Alive by <b>Arnold Bennett<\/b><br \/>32. On the Nature of Animals by<b> Claudius Elianus<\/b><br \/>33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by <b>Thorstein Veblen<\/b><br \/>34. The Temptation of St. Antony by<b> Gustave Flaubert<\/b><br \/>35. Travels by<b> Marco Polo<\/b><br \/>36. Imaginary lives by<b> Marcel Schwob<\/b><br \/>37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by <b>George Bernard Shaw<\/b><br \/>38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by<b> Francisco de Quevedo<\/b><br \/>39. The Red Redmaynes by<b> Eden Phillpotts<\/b><br \/>40. Fear and Trembling by <b>S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/b><br \/>41. The Golem by <b>Gustav Meyrink<\/b><br \/>42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by <b>Henry James<\/b><br \/>43. &amp; 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by <b>Herdotus<\/b><br \/>45. Pedro P\u00e1ramo by <b>Juan Rulfo<\/b><br \/>46. Tales by <b>Rudyard Kipling<\/b><br \/>47. Vathek by <b>William Beckford<\/b><br \/>48. Moll Flanders by <b>Daniel Defoe<\/b><br \/>49. The Professional Secret &amp; Other Texts by <b>Jean Cocteau<\/b><br \/>50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by <b>Thomas de Quincey<\/b><br \/>51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by <b>Ramon Gomez de la Serna<\/b><br \/>52. The Thousand and One Nights<br \/>53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by <b>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/b><br \/>54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by <b>L\u00e9on Bloy<\/b><br \/>55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh<br \/>56. Fantastic Stories by <b>Juan Jos\u00e9 Arreola<\/b><br \/>57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor\u2019s Return by <b>David Garnett<\/b><br \/>58. Gulliver\u2019s Travels by <b>Jonathan Swift<\/b><br \/>59. Literary Criticism by <b>Paul Groussac<\/b><br \/>60. The Idols by <b>Manuel Mujica L\u00e1inez<\/b><br \/>61. The Book of Good Love by <b>Juan Ruiz<\/b><br \/>62. Complete Poetry by <b>William Blake<\/b><br \/>63. Above the Dark Circus by <b>Hugh Walpole<\/b><br \/>64. Poetical Works by <b>Ezequiel Martinez Estrada<\/b><br \/>65. Tales by <b>Edgar Allan Poe<\/b><br \/>66. The Aeneid by <b>Virgil<\/b><br \/>67. Stories by <b>Voltaire<\/b><br \/>68. An Experiment with Time by <b>J.W. Dunne<\/b><br \/>69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by <b>Atilio Momigliano<\/b><br \/>70. &amp; 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by <b>William James<\/b><br \/>72. Egil\u2019s Saga by <b>Snorri Sturluson<\/b><br \/>73. The Book of the Dead<br \/>74. &amp; 75. The Problem of Time by <b>J. Alexander Gunn<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>observando: 1. Stories by Julio Cort\u00e1zar2. &amp; 3. The Apocryphal Gospels4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton6. &amp; 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati10. Peer Gynt and Hedda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3pV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}