"classic" or transformative books you were tricked into reading that were just shit? I'll start
>>25181319Yeah I really don't get the hype around Borges
>>25181329Ficciones is just the equivalent of a best of album. Borges has many nice essays and stuff to also read.
>>25181319>>25181329Zoomers? Or retarded?
Ive found that if its an American classic you can just skip it.
>>25181319Bait or mental retardation?
>>25181334same thing
>>25181329He was one of the first popular non-white non-western fantasy authors.
>>25181354Borges was white and Argentina is in the Western hemisphere.
>>25181354Borges was an Englishman with family from Stratfodshire. His forefathers were the Saxons and Jutes of Denmark.
>>25181319Let's see if you got it: Explain The Circular Ruins
>>25181319You’re just retarded OP (and a faggot, naturally). Though, like Borges, you have shit taste. Unfortunately unlike Borges, you can’t write.
>>25181334just about a zoomer and also speak Spanish and read him in Spanish. I liked the garden of forking paths and I wrote an essay about it at university for my Argentinian professor and got a good grade. I understand why people like him in theory, but in practice I just don't enjoy his prose and don't find the subject matter particularly interesting.
>>25181344The fact is, America has produced all the best fiction since 1900.
>>25181319
>>25181667No American has ever produced anything of actual literary merit.
>>25181676You must be laughably unread to think so.
>>25181676You are brown.
>>25181679United States 'literature' is laughable.They have to resort to writing huge pretentious books to hide the lack of substance behind it.Wallace, Gass, Pynchon, same bullshit with different forms. All shit.
>>25181676>>25181700you have to say what country youre from when you post this shitotherwise youre a coward
>>25181319It's remarkable in Spanish, and flat in English translation in a way that betrays the intellectual travelogue dilettantery of a professional JOURNALIST'S wank at the level of Idea ... he really only ought to be known for the poetry, the stories are incredibly dated offbrand Kafka.
