/lit/ - Literature

*solves literature*

>>21585649
Who's in your opinion the greatest latin american writer?
>Hardmode: You can't choose Borges.

This is the most overrated writer in Argentina, and yet the Yankees consider his works a work of art.

In his mu’allaqa, Zuhayr says that in the course of his eighty years of pain and glory many is the time he has seen destiny trample men, like and old blind camel; abu-al-Hasan says that that figure no longer makes us marvel. One might reply to that objection in many ways. First, that if the purpose of the poem were to astound, its life would be not measured in centuries but in days, or hours, or perhaps even minutes. Second, that a famous poet is less an inventor than a discoverer. In praise of ibn-Sharaf of Berkha, it has many times been said that only he was capable of imagining that the stars of the morning sky fall gently, like leaves falling from the trees; if that were true, it would prove only that the image is trivial. The image that only a single man can shape is an image that interests no man. There are infinite things upon the earth; any one of them can be compared to any other. Comparing stars to leaves is no less arbitrary than comparing them to fish, or birds. On the other hand, every man has surely felt at some moment in his life that destiny is powerful yet clumsy, innocent yet inhuman. It was in order to record that feeling, which may be fleeting or constant but which no man may escape experiencing, that Zuhayr’s line was written. No one will ever say better what Zuhayr said there. Furthermore (and this is perhaps the essential point of my reflections), time, which ravages fortresses and great cities, only enriches poetry. At the time it was composed by him in Arabia, Zuhayr’s poetry served to bring together two images –that of the old camel and that of destiny; repeated today, it serves to recall Zuhayr and to conflate our own tribulations with those of that dead Arab. The figure had two terms; today, it has four.

How did an incel become one of the greatest writers? Does he prove life experience doesn't really matter?

Hi /lit/ , I started reading Candide and The Trial last week.
What do you recommend me for absurdism?
I barely see whites, only white and black for me, if it have comedy and nihilism that make me question my ideas that would great.

Sorry about my english, I'm from another country, down the Ecuador.

Hi, deracinated Argentinian here trying to find out if there is a /lit/ reading guide, order, recommendation to Jorge Luis Borges.

What was his end game?

Stop writing

"How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?"

>>10033236
Sub-par... at best.

>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

Was he right?

>hurr long books are bad
What, did he have ADHD or something? Stupid spic

>>9610377
Pinochet did nothing wrong.

>>9523636
>Heidegger
>not a mumble rejected by respected philosophy profesors and accepted only as an Internet meme

Person / lit /

I am Argentina. I live in Argentina.
This resource writer
Argentina None.
No one likes it.
This means Americans bad
For read book like you fuck windrammer.

>>9485204
>basques
>niggers

What poetry is most like the borges short stories or the book of disquiet?

So I just read Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, from the garden of forking paths, part one. I don't get it. It's rather complicated too, a lot of details. It's just some guys trying to find a place called uqbar which they can't seem to find in an encyclopedia, except another edition of an encyclopedia mentions it. I don't get it...

ITT: Nobel's losers

Jorge Luis Borges thought you ought to read this
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/jorge-luis-borges-personal-library.html


1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16. & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling

Why didn't he win the Nobel Prize?