/lit/ - Literature

Borges, Márquez, Rulfo, Cortazar, Onetti, Vargas Llosa, Casares, Sabato, Bolaño... Latin American novelists won the 20th century

I read The Invention of Morel recently, after having been a fan of Borges for years but having only just thought to start checking out Bioy Casares's writing recently, and I was struck by how similar in its themes the novel was to a concept for a story that I'd had kicking around in my head lately...

“Where are we going? Like the unheard music that lies latent in a phonograph record, where are we until God orders us to be born? I thought of people who are no longer alive. Some day the men who channel vibrations will assemble them into the world again.”