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21539254 No.21539254 [Reply] [Original]

Why did he like Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Islamic culture so much?

>> No.21539266

>>21539254
He didn't

>> No.21539268

Because he liked exoticism.

>> No.21539283

>>21539268
In his book review to Arthur Waley's translation of the Tale of Genji, he explicitly denies this.
>This version may be characterized as a classic: it is written with an almost miraculous naturalness, and what interests us is not the exoticism—that horrible word—but rather the human passions of the novel.

>> No.21539356

>>21539268
Exactly this, you took the words out of my mouth.

>> No.21539357

>>21539254
Why not? There's a lot to like in those literatures and he was a connoisseur. I hope you're not a /pol/tard.

>> No.21539415

i-is that a labyrinth?...
AHHH MARIAMAN AYÚDAME

>> No.21539538

>>21539357
As far as I know, he's the only western writer who is so fascinated by the Orient

>> No.21539559

>>21539538
>As far as I know
How many Western writers have you read? Three? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism

>> No.21539573

White people have no culture, so it's very exciting for them to see it.

>> No.21539583

>>21539573
American moment. I bet you're a negro.

>> No.21540063

>>21539538
He was latino, not western.

>> No.21540069

>>21539573
He was latino, not white.

>> No.21540078

>>21540063
Latin America is part of the West.
>>21540069
Latino is not a race.

>> No.21540220

>>21539573
nigger hand wrote that

>> No.21540276

>>21540069
Borges self-identified as white

>> No.21540300

>>21539254
Its less the countries specifically, as much as it were the ideas he took from the religions of those countries.
From buddhism, he was very clearly fascinated with the concept of reincanration.
From Islam he liked the idea of an all encompassing singular God.

>> No.21540303

>>21539254
They were trending and he was a dilettante.

>> No.21540309

>>21540078
>>21540276
C O P E

>> No.21540444

>>21539254
>"finding myself" dead egger wine aunt
The male version, but intellectual travelogues in a pre-digital age where this was still remarkable and could be passably laundered to prospective belletrist 'peers'. Or, "It's not Euro-Orientalist pap if a simian Argie does it."

>> No.21540460

>>21540444
Funny, the only person I've found irl that liked Borges was a middle aged Colombian woman that was super into flaky new age shit & Freud

>> No.21540517

>>21539254
he didn't; stop reading translations, prologues and introductions

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>>21540300
>From Islam he liked the idea of an all encompassing singular God.
the muslim god is the same god as the christian one

>> No.21540552

>>21540524
Yeah I just meant he liked how the God in Islam unlike in Christianity is more strictly monotheistic. An all encompassing oneness. I could be wrong but pretty sure there isn't a triinity like in Christianity.
Wasn't trying to start a flamewar with Christians.