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9646562 No.9646562 [Reply] [Original]

Is Borges the patrician/literary equivalent to anime?
Hear me out:
>his characters are self-consciously characters, somewhat detached from reality, just as it is fundamentally with all anime characters due to their animated nature
>his plots are fantastical and creative due to the detachment from reality and emphasis on imagination over realism, just like anime plots
>he often has a lot of self-conscious deconstruction of literature within the genre, exploring and parodying tropes and other literary devices, just as anime often does with anime tropes and cliches
>he often references other literature, just as anime references other anime constantly
>his stories are often just adaptations, fan fictions of other earlier stories, just as anime is often an adaptation of a manga
>He was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Schopenhauer, just as Evangelion was as well as many of the other great animes, like Texhnolyze and Ergo Proxy
>One of his main themes is identity, a theme running across anime as a whole, including classics like Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, Angel's Egg, My Neighbor Totoro and of course Neon Genesis Evangelion

What do you guys think?

>> No.9646569

your earnestness is endearing and i'd probably suck your cock irl but this whole line of thinking is just fucked sorry

please delete your thread

>> No.9646843
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9646843

>Losing to 5th place by a full 10 votes, which incidentally is the Western author most influential in anime
BTFO HOW WILL HE EVER RECOVER
Though I kind of agree

>> No.9646878

>>9646843
Dosto-sama is the king of /lit/!

>> No.9647330
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>>9646562
>self-consciously characters, somewhat detached from reality
>fantastical and creative
>references other literature
>stories are often just adaptations, fan fictions of other earlier stories
>philosophy and identity
Is Don Quixote the ultimate anime character /lit/????
you went through some pretty retarded mental gymnastics to arrive at this point friend

>> No.9647360

>>9646569
Not OP but

LONDON
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>> No.9647385

>>9647360
That's not a girl silly

>> No.9647392

>>9647385
as long as the penis is girly is all that matters

>> No.9647447

>>9646843
Borges being behind DFW is a travesty. Interesting though, in James Woods' "How Fiction Works" he talks a lot about Dostoevsky shaping the novel in its current (and most effective) form with Crime and Punishment

>> No.9648745

>>9646562
Nah, its William Gibson m8

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>>9646843
>Mishima lower than Murakami

>> No.9648761

The literary equivalent to anime are young adult novels, because they're both shit.

>> No.9648771

>>9646562
what the hell is anime?

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>>9646843
>Mishima lower than Murakami
>DFW that high
>Camus that high
>Bukowski anywhere near a top 100
>Alan Moore being good and not just overrated because his comics were some of the few to not be complete shit
>meme Tao Lin votes
>genre shit
>no Ligotti

Although i'm very pleasantly surprised at seeing Brautigan there, he's really underrated in /lit/. Also nice to see good old Ballard

>> No.9648785

>>9646562
I know the concept of 'cringe' has become a meme, but this thread encapsulates it to perfection.

>> No.9648795

>>9646569
Boy how do you get through the day without blowing every 13 year old you see? Do you have to tape your mouth shut or what?

>> No.9649597

>>9648772
Ligotti a shit

>> No.9649609

>>9647447
I'm sure Wallace and Pynchon just got that many votes because they're memes.