/lit/ - Literature

>>16641818
When I finish reading Bioy's diary about Borges I'll organize my notes and highlights and I'll upload them. Thanks to the anon who recommended it. I didnt even know the book existed.

The two bros discussed English literature, sure, as well as French and German. Borges loved the English language and its literature, he was even an English literature professor in college, but he also had a deep respect and love for Spanish literature. His sensitivity to the poetry and the sound of words, in either Spanish or English, was superior. An Angloid would not bother.
Bioy and Borges discussed Cervantes, Quevedo, Góngora and Gracián at least once a week. Last few entries I read, Borges talked about Las Novelas Ejemplares. His respect for Rubén Darío was immense. He wrote tons of essays on Spanish lit, gave plenty conferences and lectures on Spanish lit.

When's the last time you had an interesting discussion about Don Quixote outside common places and shit you heard on some booktuber's channel, you ignorant piece of shit.

>>16641824
>There's no need to capitalize languages and demonyms.
Would you shut the fuck up.

Is Borges just an argentine Kafka?

Why is he so beloved by pseuds?

ITT quotes from famous/well-respected authors that would get them cancelled in (((2019))).

I'll start (from Borges):
>“Of course the blacks are unbearable…I don’t retract what I’ve stated so many times: the Americans made a grave mistake in educating them; as slaves, they were like children, they were happier and less annoying.”
>“Basque? I don’t understand how anyone could feel proud of being Basque…The Basques are even more useless than the blacks, and notice that the only good the blacks have ever served for is to be slaves.”

Borges says more in a single short story than Bolaño in entire novels. Prove me wrong.

>becomes the best writer from Latin America
Heh... nothing personnel kid.