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what are /lit/'s opinions on the most important author of modernity?

>> No.23176494
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Very enjoyable. Everybody knows his stories, but his commentaries and essays are also fun.

If you can track down this book, do it. It's a transcript of a series of talks Borges gave on the subject of writing, on prose and poetry and translation.

>> No.23176495

>>23176492
The best short storyteller of the 20th century

>> No.23176498

>>23176492
The best short storyteller period

>> No.23176513

>>23176492
Overrated. He’s good when you’re like 18-20 but you re-read him 10 years later and you can see his tricks and shallowness. Essentially an example of baby’s first serious writer. Good introduction to serious books.

>> No.23176515

>>23176492
First of all, that he's not the most important. He's excellent, certainly, but his ideas are mostly for the fun of it and therefore a lot less important than several other authors. My favorites:

The Garden of Forking Paths
Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths
The Lottery of Babylon
The Aleph
Death and the Compass (my favorite)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Legend of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz

>> No.23176520

>>23176492
Fun short stories but most of them are marginal versions of stuff done better elsewhere, or extremely bastardized, sparknotes tier versions of older poems and books (Approach to Al Assim is the first thing that came to mind for the second example). This >>23176513 is pretty much what I feel.

>> No.23176523

>>23176498
No, that would be Giovanni Boccaccio.

>> No.23176526

>>23176494
will check, thanks anon

>> No.23176528
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>Overrated. He’s good when you’re like 18-20 but you re-read him 10 years later and you can see his tricks and shallowness. Essentially an example of baby’s first serious writer. Good introduction to serious books.

>> No.23176536

DE UN TAL BOBORGES

LAS «FICCIONES»; MÁS BIEN:

«ABERRACIONES».


« 零 »

>> No.23176539

LAS DE BOBORGES

FICCIONES, NO FICCIONES:

AMBAS CEROTES.


« 零 »

>> No.23176542

UN ANGLO ARGENTO,

CON MÁS PLUMA QUE MUSA:

ESE ES BOBORGES.


« 零 »

>> No.23176543
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23176543

HE AHÍ BOBORGES,

PENE EN MANO, EN EL BAÑO:

MICROFICCIÓN.


« 零 »

>> No.23176544

>>23176513
holy cope batman

>> No.23176547

>>23176536
>>23176543
>>23176539
>>23176536
Que manera de escribir boludeces mamita querida. Azteca de mierda.

>> No.23176555

>>23176547


BOLUDECES LAS QUE TE METES EN EL BUCHE.

SALUDOS.

>> No.23176560

>>23176536
>>23176539
>>23176542
>>23176543
CUMGUZZLER thinks his shit opinions matter lmao

>> No.23176561

>>23176543
Lol this one is funny

>> No.23176565

>>23176555
checked

>> No.23176567

>>23176555
Anda a seguir leyendo a Roberto Gomez Bolaños, indigena.

>> No.23176571

>>23176543
This picture makes me think of how Norman Thomas di Giovanni observed that Borges would sometimes urinate on his dress shoes as he was at the urinal; since, of course, he was almost totally blind by that point.

>> No.23176582

>>23176520
He’s basically the Tarantino of short stories lmao
A remixer with occasional good moments.

>> No.23176597

>>23176571
Far worse things happened to him (sexually speaking) but I’m not going to talk shit about him because even if he’s an overrated writer he’s still a person.

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Speaking of Di Giovanni, now that Borges' whore second wife is finally dead, when do we think HIS translations are going to go back into print?

I can't be the only one who'd like a complete collection of all the Di Giovanni translations. I've scrounged for books from the 1960s and 1970s, but I know I don't have everything of Borges that Di Giovanni translated. They're great works of literature in their own right, less pure translations and more Borges rewriting his old work in English.

>> No.23176622

>>23176607
The Di Giovanni estate must reach a deal with the Borges estate for that to happen. Borges originally (and perhaps naively and over generously) had a deal for 50/50 with Di Giovanni. This is obviously in detriment of the writer so Maria Kodama had to find another translator and reach a better deal (that’s how the Penguin translations came to be).

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>>23176492
Like a year ago I was reading "Apollodorus, The library", and at some point I read, "And she gave birth to Asterius", and I thought, where did I heard that phrase before? And I remembered it was in The Aleph, "The Home of Asterius", that Borges quotes, "and the queen gave birth to a son named Asterius"; and I realized that Asterius is not just another of the many different names people called the beast, how I heard many illustrious people say, but the phrase is meaning that "Asterius" is the real name of the "Minotaur", the name that Pasiphae gave to it as her son, and not just another way to name the minotaur

>> No.23176661

>>23176582
Great comparison. This post should be headlined on his wiki page. Lmao