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Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:35:58 2018 No.12269960 [Reply] [Original]

Has Borges created a single great character?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:37:39 2018 No.12269967 Yeah, Cervantes

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:38:27 2018 No.12269971 >>12269960 Borges said short stories were essentially for plots and ideas while novels were for characters. He never wrote a novel, therefore, he didn't create any great character. If anything, the best character he created was Borges himself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 18:38:58 2018 No.12269978 The quintessential "reads for the plot" author

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 19:44:33 2018 No.12270361 File: 134 KB, 1374x1136, 1510640852410.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12269967

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 19:46:27 2018 No.12270378 >>12269960 No and he didn’t want to.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 22 19:55:27 2018 No.12270437 >>12269960 Read his early stories about outlaws. All interesting characters. >>12269967 and >>12270361 are also correct; the small details of Pierre Menard's biography actually tell us a lot about the guy.