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>>7547246

There's something timeless and universal about his writing, so I imagine it will continue to age well.
I think if he were around today he would be less well known than he is now. I don't think he would make a dent in the current milieu of social media, personality, etc.

>>7547255

>not being present and participating in the major "things" happening during your time or being dismissive of those who do.

Opinion discarded.

>>7547272
See, I'm not so sure. A lot of Borges' stories aren't just short, they're really short, perfect for today's condensed attention spans.

Moreover, I feel like Borges would take well to social media. I think he'd be a hit on Facebook and Twitter and maybe even Instagram. I think he'd use it all for metatextual mindfuckery and he'd draw lots of people in, though I doubt most of them would fully understand what he was doing.

>>7547255
c'mon grampa, it's time for your pills and bed.

>>7547981
You're right. So much great stuff has been written on twitter. In five years I'm sure you will look back proudly at all you accomplished there. Keep at it, friend. You're going to do great things!

I sort of thought Borges was bordering on post-modern, in the sense that post-modern uses collages of styles, and literary forms as opposed to the distinct styles and literary forms of the modernists. I have no essay on hand to prove this however.

But in the sense that Borges taps into the post-modern love of meta stuff, definitely. I mean, he essentially brings that back in the 20th century.

>>7548029

Has nothing to do with anything being written there, and has everything to do with life and its experiences in the year 2016.

In my opinion, not going on Twitter (or whatever your social media choice) is like being a writer in Paris in the 20's and not going to a bar/cafe. That may be a bad example. Like you were a Roman and not going to the Forum. Like an Irishman and not going to a bar. A Puritan not going to Church.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be at a bar and having a genuine conversation and tossing ideas back and forth, but don't deny that Twitter or other social media is not a vital part of life experience in our time that we're living. So vital, in fact, that if you're trying to do any great work for or about or from this era, you'd be a fool to dismiss it. You don't have to like it, but you're a fool if you don't see why it's important for any artist to, at the very least, acknowledge and try to understand and interpret.

Post your favorite Borges story

he's timeless

>>7547981
>not being present and participating in the major "ethnic cleansing" happening during your time or being dismissive of those who do.

>>7548006
I'm still not sure Borges would be a hit on Twitter. Most of his stories, while short, involve the maneuvering of ideas and concepts that take up the whole length of the text. It's hard to pull pithy, catchy statements of 140 characters or less out of those. Borges did do a decent job making quips, but I'm not sure it would be enough to lead him to stardom.

Now, Chesterton, who of course was one of Borges' favorite writers, would be the fucking king of Twitter. Chesterton would probably have more followers than Kanye.

>>7548074
The Immortal

>>7548125
I think if Borges would be on Twitter he wouldn't use a single tweet, he'd find out how to link to future tweets and build a library of tweets where you can endlessly follow links, each tweet branching out to a different "floor"

>>7548070
You're a slave. That's all I can say.

The sad part is I'm actually trying to help you, but you love being a conformist drone too much to listen. Continue pouring your energy and time into participating and defending these "vital" activities.

>>7548129
This dude fucken gets it.

>>7548132
>>7548115

Sure. Okay. Whatever you say, pal.

he will never use twitter you fucks, he was blind.

>>7548129
lmao

>>7548132
I'm so glad I passed my "conformist drone"-shouting phase and now I can actually try to understand people.

I sure hope you don't wish to become a writer.

>>7548212
>what is text to speech

>>7548074
The South

Is his best work Ficciones? Or should I get that Collected Fictions thing which is almost 3 times as big?

>>7548644
Get the collected if you can't get more than one book, but Ficciones has most of his famous ones together with Libro de Arena and El Aleph

>>7548070
>Implying Twitter is used by anyone more than teens and manchilds
Comparing Twitter to a Paris cafe is fucking dumb.
Twitter ain't got shit to du with the Forum. It looks more like roman graffiti desu.

>>7548074
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

is it good to read Borges with Hurley translation? I've got those selected fictions/non-fictions, etc. set from penguin classics.

>>7548721
They're not /lit/'s favorite, nor that of the lit world in general because of their being a pure shekel commission, but they'll do if that's what you have.

>>7548727
:( what's prefered translation? di giovanni?

>>7548074
Alef

>>7548070
This would be more true if you word replaced "Twitter" with "the Internet".

I am honestly a bit embarrassed for you. Gushing over Twitter is dumb and cringe, and you are overrating it significantly. Its penetration is quite crappy relative to Facebook, and dominated by the worst sorts of users creating a dazzling torrent of useless shit.

The actual point you should be reaching for is that social media in general is an important avenue of (viral) advertising and defining/controlling authorial image.

>>7548129
Furthermore, Borges would create a million or more additional accounts that would contribute to this network of tweets, spending all day to curate the perfect sea of information

Then, Twitter would die, because no-one would sign up anymore. Everyone would say "Borges has already tweeted everything possible, why should I sign up".

Your father dies and his final message to your family is in a tweet by Borges.

>>7548074

'The Library of Babel'

>>7547246
>I feel like he'd have millions of Twitter followers.

I think Borges might deserve a bit more than essentially being called the Mira Gonzalez or Dennys Official Twitter of his time.

There's loads of people out there doing those kinds of Twitter accounts. They're not really all that better or worse than each other. Followers just seem to come from the same game of marketing that rules every other account's success.

Hell, when I looked at excerpts of Gonzalez's book, I saw that her tweets weren't much better or funnier than the tweets I've seen much smaller accounts make.