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Genius or talentless hack?

>> No.17798872

if nabokov likes him I like him

>> No.17798874

>>17798868
He's smart but maybe a little bit up his own ass, certainly not a genius

>> No.17798883

>>17798872
Holy shit, get a personality.

>> No.17798886

>>17798872
Nabokov started to dislike him by the late 60s.

>> No.17798898

>>17798886
yeah I know
>>17798883
in case you're wondering I have read neither borges or nabokov and I don't give a shit

>> No.17798919

I learned more from reading his Harvard lectures than I did in 4 years of an English degree.
They're compiled under the title 'This Craft of Verse' and available free on the usual sites.

>> No.17799071

>>17798868
The worse Calvino

>> No.17799694
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17799694

Borges is the greatest writer of the 20th Century. Not Joyce, not Faulkner, not Proust. Borges takes the crown.

>> No.17799904

>>17798872
this, if nakobov sucks sum cock i'm there as well

>> No.17799936

>>17798868
Greatest writer of the 20th century.

>> No.17799947

>>17798868
Genius and fuck anyone who says otherwise

>> No.17800185

>>17799694
Borges is one bullet, one kill. Proust is artillery.
It's difficult to put one above the other because I love both.

>> No.17800197

>>17799071
Really? Only read Cosmicomics but it was nowhere near as agood as Borges