/lit/ - Literature

>>21363217
>Borges - "Idea guy" who owes his popularity to his excessive flattery of anglos and jews.
facts, i never understood why people love that guy that much. Maybe i've only read the weak books but i was heavily dissapointed

>>21363217
i do not like Richard Yates very much

Pseud. Good prose stylist though.

>>21363217
I've never read Borges, but I'm going to now based on how retarded the other 2 opinions you give are. Thanks!

>>21363217
didn't get enough attention the last dozen times you made this thread?

>>21363236
>T. Butthurt Borgesfag pretending to impartiality

>>21363237
Do you have anything to add or not, nigga?

>>21363217
Mark Fisher personally. Depressing, Trite and Pointless

>>21363217
>Who are some authors you do not care for?
Richard Yates

>>21363226
>>21363217
>>21363247
borges writes beautifully, hush

>>21363217
I don't care for Faulkner or Pynchon. Mostly because I'm a brainlet.

>>21363217
Vonnegut and Kafka

>>21363326
Shame he had nothing to say.

>>21363420
so

>>21363424
So you can only read airy, flowery tripe for so long before it gets boring.

>>21363444
you are boring

>>21363217
>Faulkner - managed to fool academics into thinking he was a genius with dry, boring prose and baby's first subtext
>Sanderson - might as well just watch a TV show
>Woolf - a lot of words to say nothing of substance. Characters feel like they're behind a pane of glass performing "IM ACTIIIING" tier dialogue and motion

/fil/ - Filtered General

>>21363217
Ah so this is the designated booklet containment thread

>>21363326
yeah but his literature is empty

>>21363651
read a manual on how to build furniture then or whatever

>>21363236
No, Borges translator writes beautifully. Borges reads awful in Spanish. Even Borges praised the English translations of his works as superior to the original.

>>21363651
I don't see how. It's filled with wonder, ideas, and SOVL.

>>21363825
Borges reads excellent in Spanish. His prose is elegant yet clear. He cleaned the Spanish prose of his day which was full of ornaments and purple nonsense. Borges translator? Faggot, Borges basically translated it himself. The American translator was a joke. Borges mocked him in private, particularly because he didn't even know basic Latin.

>>21363217
Joyce
Tolstoy
Nabakov
Gaddis
Dante
Barthelme

>>21363217
>victorian ghost stories
such as? legitimately curious.

>>21363217
Huysmans and Hemingway. Both very boring.

>>21363217
Margaret Atwood.

>>21363217
Kafka is really fucking boring apart from the story with the pain machine which is excellent

>>21363842

Are you talking about Di Giovanni or Anthony Kerrigan? In any case I don't believe you.

>>21363825
>Borges reads awful in Spanish
Delusional. Borges is a pretty good writer (at least in Spanish; haven't read him translated).

>>21364443
Di Giovanni, that's the one who worked with Borges and moved to Buenos Aires.

>>21363217
>Who are some authors you do not care for?
I do care for Negarestani; but the way he writes makes me sick. I understand what he does, basically gymnastics, but I'm also an ESL and I'd like to read in a clear way what he writes, not in that rococo style.

>>21363217
>Borges
>>21363337
>Pynchon
>>21363360
>Vonnegut
>>21364009
>Nabakov
>>21364027
>Atwood
>>21363235
>Hesse
Agree with all of these, and will add LeGuin and Banana Yoshimoto

>>21363470
woolf's essays are her best work. the common reader, in all its volumes, are among the finest essays in the language. give her another shot anon

>>21363217
>Nabokov; unfeeling narcissist who masturbates so beautifully you almost forget all he's doing is masturbating
>Nathaniel Hawthorne; clumpy prose that trips over itself