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Borges

Topic started by rahul_capri on Apr 5, 2008 10:22:00 am

http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html
Just read this and I am hooked.
haven't read anything like him before


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Post by ana on Apr 10, 2008 7:55:50 pm

rahul dev, mention naaT. :)


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Post by rahul_capri on Apr 10, 2008 7:31:57 pm

Thanks ana


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Post by ana on Apr 10, 2008 6:29:56 pm

also yaar, if you can get a hold of his essays "Six memos for the next millenium". . . they are well worth the read.


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Post by ana on Apr 10, 2008 6:23:55 pm

Ummm, Rahul all my books are packed away, and I have a lousy memory for titles these days, Under a Jaguar Sun, Marcovaldo and If on a Winter's Night A Traveler. In novels, The Baron In The Trees.


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Post by rahul_capri on Apr 10, 2008 6:16:06 pm

Any book you recommend, ana?


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Post by ana on Apr 9, 2008 5:53:37 pm

Calvino is awesome. There are similarities I suppose. I still have Ficciones somewhere. .


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Post by neembu on Apr 8, 2008 8:20:33 am

no...right now i am rereading and teaching Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk and Jean Toomer's Cane-one of the first American postmodernist texts. will put them on my reading list, thanks


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Post by rahul_capri on Apr 8, 2008 7:37:02 am

Have you read Italo Calvino or Donald Barthleme?Apparently they are "Borgesian".


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Post by neembu on Apr 8, 2008 5:34:41 am

losing his book in the subway is borgesianB)


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Post by rahul_capri on Apr 8, 2008 4:09:10 am

Thanks neembu.
I bought Ficciones but lost it in the subway.


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Post by neembu on Apr 7, 2008 10:27:37 pm

my fave is Labryrinths


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