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.

Tlon, Uqbar... by Borges. Went on a bit much about the philosophy of this imaginary world. It could be said it's far less true of Borges than others but it's still true that you have an idea and you pad it severely. And in this case with spin-offs from useless establishment philosophy. Or not. It may be going over my head.

The idea of the fictitious creation affecting our own world is a nice idea I've very much had on my own. If only I believed it.