Doesn't he list every single one in every story he writes?

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/jorge-luis-borges-personal-library.html

Doesn't include several big influences like Dante

>>8258773
Heidegger, Kierkegaard, 1001 Nights, Schwob, Lovecraft...

>>8258798
You're boring

Kafka, Lovecraft, autism

>>8258807
>You're boring
Nah, what's boring is reading a list of namedropping.
But he doesn't do that in every one.
So we gucci.
Can you remember the name of the one where a king instructs a man to write three songs (may have been poems). In the end, the man sings or recites the third piece. The man kills himself and the king takes to the streets.

>>8258773
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4331/the-art-of-fiction-no-39-jorge-luis-borges he goes into detail here. talks quite a lot about Kafka and Henry James.

also, he often collaborated with Adolfo Bioy Casares.

MC Escher you mono-medial neanderthals.

>>8258843
I like it, I like it

thanks for the replies everyone

Kafka, Poe, Chesterton, Dante, Samuel Johnson, Khayyam, Lovecraft, Schopenhauer, Swedenborg, Dante, Martín Fierro...