Borges, Bolaño and the Return of the Epic
During their lifetimes, Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño struggled against vanity and all things pretentious, aspirational, ordinary, and obliging. They are peculiar cases in literature, ones that the literary machine itself seems to reject. They were not bestsellers. During a substantial part of their lives, they existed either under the shadow of public rejection, or in the clandestinity of aesthetic infringement. The relationship they sustained with their time and the writers of their time was complex and peppered with barbs. Certainly, what they understood as literature had little to do with the desire to appease any aesthetics (social, moral, political, philosophical) other than their own. Their relationship with literature was almost sacred. They believed in little else and were consecrated to her alone, as if literature were (perhaps because it is) a matter of life and death.
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ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [FEBRUARY - ARGENTINA]
Hello, everyone!
I hope you enjoyed getting into South Korean books in January! Let us know in the comments what you read and if you liked it.
Now February is upon us and our country of the month is
Argentina! We’ll explore Argentinian literature, one of the very best Latin America has to offer. You can choose one of the modern classics like
Jorge Luis Borges or
Julio Cortázar, or perhaps discover new and rule-breaking works in translation, many of which are by women.
Don’t know much about Argentina? It’s ok, we’ll start with a bit of info about the country, just enough to give you some context for your reading, then there’s a bunch of book recs for the month. As always, you can choose something out of the list. A huge thanks to the amazing, sweetest Argentinian