/lit/ - Literature

>>12615440
Except they didn't.

>>12615445
They absolutely did.

>>12615449
No

>>12615454
Yes

>>12615456
Shit I guess you're right

>>12615440
Ibsen alone is more important than the combined effort of all you banana republics.

>>12615499
Borges is a superior writer.

>>12615440
Latin America is significantly more populous than Scandinavia. I'm sure you can use your imagination to figure out what's holding the Africans back.

>>12615507
>Latin America is significantly more populous than Scandinavia
Fair enough.
> I'm sure you can use your imagination to figure out what's holding the Africans back.
lol you're right

more like the irony of the colonies producing better literature than their mother countries. brazil better than portugal (one hit wonder with pessoa desu), mexico/argentina/etc better than spain, america/india better than britain (canada is an extension of the uk desu), etc etc.

>>12615504
Nobody care about Borges except argie pseuds. Ibsen created modern theatre.

>>12615440
Latin American literature is a little bit overrated generally speaking. (not saying African lit is better or anything)

>>12615507
This. I’m a Latin American, and proud as I am of our literature I would take nothing away from the Scandinavians. Hamsun, Ibsen, Strindberg, Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, there’s plenty going on there.
The darkies on the other hand... well, not much to be said there.

>>12615526
Says a man who has clearly never read Camoes.

>>12615526
>india better than britain

>>12615527
>Nobody care about Borges except argie pseuds.
Everyone who matters, literature wise, in Europe and in the Americas cares about Borges. Don't be delusional.
> Ibsen created modern theatre.
Oh, yeah, theatre. That thing the world is crazy about.

>>12615541
Name one (1) person who cares about Borges.

>>12615526
>brazil better than portugal
what did he mean by this?

>>12615561
Harold Bloom, Michel Houellebecq, Bolaño, Del Toro, Pauls, literally eveyone worth anything. I doubt you've even read him if you have this shit opinion.

>tfw Australia has produced more poetry kino than all other anglo colonies combined but will never be recognised for it

>>12615581
rec someone, chart when?

>>12615592
there used to be shitposting threads about Baylebridge, who is certified /lit/ approved

>>12615579
Borges is way better than Ibsen, but Ibsen is probably more important.

>>12615579
No one on that list is worth anything lmao. Nobody cares about your special strain of magical genre fiction.

>>12615634
>No one on that list is worth anything lmao
Everyone in that list is more important than any contemporary faggot writer from Scandinavia.

>Nobody cares about your special strain of magical genre fiction.
Nobody except the world. Latin American fiction is more popular than Scandinavian fiction. Don't be delusional.

>>12615629
Borges is the superior writer, but Ibsen is a sacred cow.

>>12615661
Got any sources for those spicy claims, beaner?

Anyone who hates Borges is either a Fag, or hasn’t read it. It’s that simple, Borges alone all the Scandinavian cucks.

>>12615440
Can you tell me what you mean by better?

>>12615563
The truth

>>12616724
Richer, stronger, culturally relevant.

>>12616745
What Brazilian nigger is better than Camoes, Pessoa, Saramago or Lobo Antunes?

>>12616837
well can you tell me exactly how something can be richer, stronger, and culturally relevant?

>>12615440
"How"? There are complex reasons, but mostly this is just your tastes we're talking about.

>>12616847
Machado de Assis. And is actually black kek.

btw, Pessoa is the only one good in your list. The rest is trash.

>>12617127
>Machado de Assis.
lmao now seriously, who?

>>12615561
Umberto Eco

>>12615561
I'm a Norwegian and I prefer Borges over Ibsen. Nobody reads Keiser and Galilæer which is his best play anyways

>>12615440
>A certain subcontinent makes more things than a few countries with far less people living in there.

Shocking.

>>12615561
Philip roth, john barth, nabokov, the list goes on...

>>12617127
I read that huge tome of his collected works that were released last year. Every one of his stories:

1. Upperclass female/male
2. Orphan, raised by rich uncle
3. Some degree of profligacy or degenerate living
4. Meets someone they love
4a. magical realism or "mystery" element introduced
5. degenerate behavior is pivot of plot
6. they or their remaining family die, a few lines given to the rest of their life

This was great in the beginning but became incredibly bland

>>12618752
wow a bunch of memes

Goth genetics. All the enterprising Goths left Scandinavia and formed the ruling class of Iberia, which filtered through to the poet class of Latin America.

The lazy Goths stayed behind in Scandinavia where dysgenics from.losing their best stock fuerher reduced them to their current miserable state. Obviously Africans needed be commented upon.

>>12618813
>no author is good

>>12615526
>america better than britain
o i am laffin