The Land Across by Gene Wolfe.
Guy goes to some dictatorial slavic country to write a travel book and gets his passport taken away from him and forced to live with a couple as a "prisoner". Every woman in the book is decent looking and sleeps with him, which is a sort of fantasy fiction. Too much intrigue to bother trying to follow. Really not possible to follow actually. Was interesting enough to keep my attention but not a great writing by any means. Not his best book. So much of what Wolfe writes is a bit overly whimsical. Like there are no rules to world. Things just randomly wander off in directions at a moments notice.

But at least it had a plot. Borges just goes on a bit longwinded without a plot at all. Here and there Wolfe has written some excellent stuff.