/lit/ - Literature

>every other story feels like the same as the previous one
>still the most striking litterature I've ever read
>translated
how does he do it

What is your favorite Borges work? I just read Death and the Compass and loved it.

>In his Autobiographical Essay, written in 1970, Borges confesses: “At some point while in Switzerland, I began reading Schopenhauer. Today, were I to choose a single philosopher, I would choose him” (Borges “Autobiographical” 216).
Borges is in agreement.

While I love this motherfucker to death, recently I have began to think things from another side
His stories are extremely well crafted, but he deals with concepts, not with life. This much is obvious
But also, I began to realize that this type of writing is a sign of decadence of a society, a sign of a time when academics play around with glass beads within their ivory towers
It doesnt have the vitality of true poetry
Its like a ghost, sometimes even a parody of more vital writers (and a self conscious, winking one)
The meta themes, of stories within stories, of writers writing about writing, they are only possible in a culture tired of itself, being rapidly replaced by progress, having left tradition behind, which culminates later, after fully embracing consumerism and mass culture too, in writers like Pynchon or DFW
He cites a lot of people but he doest engage with culture at large. He creates puzzles to be savored, but thats it. Sterile mind games
He is clever, extremely clever, too clever for his own good, but there is no wisdom in his pages. You cant build a culture with his books, only a frustrated, alienated aristocratic class
That makes Borges a defective writer in my view. He cant produce a flower, only a tumor like funghus attatched to it. A beautiful, intricate funghus, for sure, but a parasite nonetheless, feeding from the remaints of a dying culture

>>22241464
This niggas borges nigga

start reading borges

Wrong.

>>14987114
bro did you just describe me?
nabokov is great too but he is mostly shilled because of his literary criticism and his skepticism in regards to established literary giants like dosto