/lit/ - Literature

I'm turning this into a lit-media thread. Here is a number of lectures that Borges delivered at Harvard in the late 60s. The guy's English is great.

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/jorge_luis_borges_1967-8_norton_lectures_on_poetry_and_everything_else_literary.html

JORGE LUIS BORGES

name one author better than BORGES.


Explain

Hey, /lit/. What do you think about one of my favourite writers, Jorge Luis Borges?

Pic related, It's Jorge Luis Borges.

What do you like best about Maestro Borges?

Everything

I'm looking for an electronic copy of Ficciones translated into English. Can one of you /lit/izens upload it to a file sharing site for me?

Without a doubt

ITT: Works that tackle an idea you've always wanted to tackle, and do so better than you could ever, ever, ever hope to do.

The one that comes to mind the most for me is Borges' story, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote", and in a vaguely similar vein, Donald Barthelme's novel "The Dead Father".

Will we ever have another Borges?

Pynchon and Bloom seem to be the closest right now, but both of them lack so much...

Is it even possible to achieve his level of erudition given the developments in literature in the last century?

ITT: Conservatives

Dear /lit/erates,
I just finished a translation of one of Borges interviews and uploaded it to /lit/'s Wiki: http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges_1976_Interview

I still have to re-read the whole thing one more time to correct any mistakes and upload a couple of pictures.

If the Wiki's admin is reading this, I've already mailed you, but could you please add a link in the Sidebar to a page with "additional resources" (links for downloading ebooks, this kind of contributions, etc.)

I also plan on translating his second interview and, maybe, one of Cortazar's when I have some free time.

A god amongst men.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ER919AtOgA

Jorge.

The true king of /lit/.

Any dissenters will be cast down into a labyrinth.

If you could spend a day with one writer, living or dead, who would it be?

Pic related. borges es dios.

He was a rightwingfag.

...who else?

And yet, and yet . . . Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

or

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

or

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.