The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief, Borges's Collected Fictions, Narcissus and Goldmund...”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Borges's Collected Fictions insist always upon their self-conscious status as artifices, unlike Chekhov's impressionistic glances at the truths of our existence.”