/lit/ - Literature

his stories are a bit too inscrutable for me. imaginative and well written but leaves me puzzled and uninterested in the answer because there likely isn't any.

>>17703439
are you hot?

>>17703472

He saw storytelling as a sort of game or child's play. There is no answer because it's entirely beside the point, much like who wins or what exactly the rules are in child's play.

>>17703439
he was a communist

>>17704106
back to /pol/ you go!

>>17704106

The only non-communist Boom writer was Vargas Llosa, and even he was a communist in his youth.

Bolaño took the piss out of that when he wrote Nazi Literature in the Americas.

Hopscotch is ridiculously good. One part slice-of-life for artist / poets in Argentina, one part absurdist existentialist novel. Very fun. Great passages about drinking yerba mate too. Can't hate.

>>17704149
I really like Hopscotch what short stories by him would you recomend?

>>17704382
the doomed door, no sé si fue traducido así, el cuento del que hablo es "la puerta condenada"

>>17704382
Read Bestiario, a collection of early short stories by him. Not exactly the same as Rayuela but you can see the style is in it

>>17704110
No

>>17704382

>House Taken Over
>Miss Cora
>The Southern Highway
>The Island at Noon
>The devil's drools
>Continuity of Parks
>Axolotl
>Bestiary
>Poisons (a personal favorite, although I seem to be the only one)
>End of the game
>The night face up
>The droolings of the devil (aka: The story Antonioni adapted in Blow-Up)
>The Pursuer
>The health of the sick

macedonio > marechal > dabove > borges >>>> cortazar

>>17705110
>dabove > borges >>>> cortazar
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Yeah Hopscotch is fucking great. Shame it has become kind of an alt-girl book. It should be reclaimed

>>17704579
>>17704963
>>17705091
Excellent anons, I sincerely thank you

>>17705617
has it really? seems weird since the main guy (i forgot his name, im terrible with names) seemed like kind of a dick to the women in the novel, especially the lady he's in love with in Paris (forgot her name). It's also such a weird and admittedly kind of difficult book so im surprised that alt-girls would bother reading it. Spose they could just be pretending, though.

South American literature is just regurgitated French trends. Stick to Anglos, French and Germans and you should be good.

>>17704106
The Castro fan fiction was pretty cringe but generally wrote really well

>South American literature is just regurgitated French trends.
false

>>17705617
Really? The main characyer was kind of an asshole, why would alt-girls like it?

>>17706192

Kek.

Every single Boom author was trying to copy Faulkner.

>>17703439


JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ ES LA MEJOR POR MUCHO.

>>17703439

Not even close.

>>17706192

When you say "anglos" you only mean British, right, you burger?

>>17706864
>>17706119
I think mainly it's because it has that famous quote about love that every alt girl posts in social media.
>Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro, los he visto. Como si se pudiera elegir en el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio. Vos dirás que la eligen porque-la-aman, yo creo que es al vesre. A Beatriz no se la elige, a Julieta no se la elige. Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto.
That one. Cringiest part of the book imo

>>17707052
Umm didn't remember that specific quote, it's not that cringe in context

>>17707052

There are quite a few parts of Hopscotch that haven't grown old very well and that are quite cringy after 60 years. The long rant about how jazz is the music of the future also stands out, specially as it is intended to be entirely unironic.