/lit/ - Literature

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>>21591711
Jacques Le Goff
Étienne Gilson
Neal Stephenson
Donna Tartt
Marlon James

Well this book was an homage to Borges,

>>21591711
Measuring the World, kehlmann

>>21591711
Borges probably
Maybe Italo Calvino?

>>21591711
Redwall.

>>21594211
>Borges probably
This.

>>21591885
I have read this book, but barely nothing from Borges. Why is it an homage?

>>21591885
>homage to Borges
>make him a insane blindman who hates literature and is likely into the boipussi

weird one Umberto, but I'll allow it because it's a great book

I think Eco had a love/hate relationship with Borges
He loved his writing but couldn’t stomach his support of Videla. Or Borges’s hatred of Peron.
Borges later did distance himself from Videla but never got over his hatred for Peron. (Peron had imprisoned his mother and sister and fired Borges from his librarian job and made him take a job as an agricultural inspector. So he did have some legitimate grievances.)

>>21591711
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin.

>>21596060
Borges was a fancy lad who shouldn't have involved himself in politics in the first place.
Do you even realize how much of a bourgeois piece of shit do you have to be if your grievance with the government is that they moved you from one fancy job to another in fucking 1940s latin America? I had ONE great-uncle who had a similar (albeit much lower level) job than Borges and he essentially maintained his own family, younger brothers and mother.
Meanwhile mr. Fauntleroy was mad that he couldn't stay in his useless clerk job jerking off to Martin Fierro and Chesterton instead of doing something the country actually needed to be done

>>21595757
it's not an homage to Borges, the other anon is a retard. there's an important character in the novel named Jorge de Burgos who is a blind librarian, obviously inspired in Borges, and Eco's fiction as a whole has Borges influence, but it's not an homage.