Name a better writer than Jorge Luis Borges
>protip: you can't
All the writers he namedrops.
>>7827138
Bioy
>>7827148
kill yourself
>>7827148
Everyone knows that Bioy was Borges' bitch.
>>7827138
The Borges that wrote about Borges was great, but there will never be another like the Borges that Borges wrote about.
>>7827148
Bloy
When I read him I get the impression that he was just trying way too hard to be deep. And after a while you realize he only has about three or four stories to tell. He's good, but not great.
>>7827213
this. he whinged about not receiving the nobel prize.
>>7827213
He tried to be deep before the time when being deep was a thing.
Also, he wasn't even trying, he was really that autistic and obsessed with symbolism, recursiveness and obscure references (remember that he wrote his first short story at 6 and at 9 he was translating Oscar Wilde).
I guess that he is my favorite writer because of the way he treated reality and fiction (every one of his books is filled with false references, but the references he does are so obscure that is hard to notice), how his stories aren't based on a particular gimmick, instead he explains the fucking gimmick using a fake version of himself as the narrator.
>>7827138
Hm, tough one, Borges was pretty based. Maybe Chekhov on a good day?
>>7827138
Joyce. Pynchon. Kafka. Borges is great, and he's arguably top 3 in Latin American literature, but there's a lot lf writers that are better than him at mostly everything.
>>7827296
>Borges
>probably Cervantes
Who's #3?
>>7827363
Despite the /lit/ contrarians, its obviously Marquez and Llosa/Rulfo/Asturias or someone like that.
>cervantes
>latin american
>>7827296
>Pynchon
top kek m8
>>7827284
>>7827138
Goethe, Shakespeare...
>>7827138
>you will never read 'The Library of Babel' for the first time ever again
God I love it.
>>7827191
this
>>7828252
I still want to know what the fuck they eat. That is the only thing that bugs me.
>>7827363
Borges, Cortázar and Márquez are the top 3. Right now I can't list them since I haven't read all their work, but it would probably be:
>Márquez
>Borges
>Cortázar
Bolaño is somewhere down there lol.
>>7827399
Have you actually read any Pinecone m8?
>>7828541
Marquez is reddit tier YA
>>7828577
Some of his stuff is pretty subpar, yes. But his really good stuff saves him (Cien Años de Soledad, for instance.)
Stephen King,GRRM,Miguel de Cervantes
>>7828541
Borges should be at the top. Marquez is more accessible, but Borges takes LA lit to its highest ends.
>>7828541
Sabato > Cortazar imo
>>7828654
I agree in principle, and Borges' stories are endless, but I don't think he has anything as magnificent as Cien años.
Borges is great but it would be nice if he had written a good sex scene or anything about sex at all at least once. The guy's a Peron-hating permavirgin
>>7828453
Books, duh
what about Macedonio Fernandez
>>7828660
Cortazar has Bestiario, Rayuela and a shit ton of god-tier short stories.
The only thing comparable to Borges on Sabato's work is Sobre Heroes Y Tumbas.
>>7828795
There is one short story where the protagonist is a german woman and it has sex and shit.
Also, iirc the first sexual encounter on Borges life was traumatizing and unconfortable as fuck, so i can understand him being focused on autistic derivations of obscure works instead of being a /lat/ Sade.
>>7829092
>Also, iirc the first sexual encounter on Borges life was traumatizing and unconfortable as fuck
Details?
>>7829027
Never read his stuff, but he sure looks badass.
>>7829137
There are lots of interviews, i can't remember correctly which one has the sex stuff.
I find very weird that Borges' work was devoid of romance and sex, kek.
