/lit/ - Literature

this guy right here

>>3324309
2/3
Word by word, immersed in the sordid dilemma of the hero and heroine, letting himself go toward where the images came together and took on color and movement, he was witness to the final encounter in the mountain cabin. The woman arrived first, apprehensive; now the lover came in, his face cut by the backlash of a branch. Admirably she stanched the blood with her kisses, but he rebuffed her caresses, he had not come to repeat the ceremonies of a secret passion, protected by a world of dry leaves and furtive paths through the forest. The dagger warmed itself against his chest, and underneath pounded liberty, ready to spring. A lustful, yearning dialogue raced down the pages like a rivulet of snakes, and one felt it had all been decided from eternity. Even those caresses which writhed about the lover's body, as though wishing to keep him there, to dissuade him from it, sketched abominably the figure of that other body it was necessary to destroy. Nothing had been forgotten: alibis, unforeseen hazards, possible mistakes. From this hour on, each instant had its use minutely assigned. The cold-blooded, double re-examination of the details was barely interrupted for a hand to caress a cheek. It was beginning to get dark.

Last three:
La Revolución Perdida (The Lost Revolution) - Ernesto Cardenal
The Winners - Julio Cortázar
Death with Interruptions - José Saramago

Currently reading:
Demian - Herman Hesse

Next three:
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar
The Tunnel - Ernesto Sábato

I recently had a discussion with a Chilean friend of mine regarding the state of literature in Latin America. He mentioned his theory that Bolaños was it, the last of the lineage. I disagreed and argued that Bolaños while noteworthy for his success in the world of translations always held a contentious relationship with his Spanish readership. In fact, I think the closing of the golden age in Latin American Lit was precipitated by Cortázar's death in '84. The last great short story writer in a dying field. Thoughts? I can't be the only one to have reservations on Bolaños.

>>2274733

>Talking badly about Julio Cortazar.

lolno

Pero si tienes razon sobre el pendejo de Bukowski. Pero ni lo compares con Cortazar. El que culpa tiene que los hipsters se caguen el palo con sus grandes obras?

>>2260799
well, that's just like your opinion, man

La verdad es que quizas si vendria bien un blog literario dedicado al castellano. Ya que el TAR impuso su regla de castigar a aquellos que no se conforman a la lengua inglesa.