Mentions (9)
"It's perfectly fine, I think, if humanities students want to study more Borges or James Baldwin and less Sophocles, but there needs to be an idea of what value literature or poetry or philosophy have outside of serving as political propaganda."
"The English translation is a bit mid, but the original in Spanish hits hard."
"Fictions by Borges explores how the 'cultural cannon' and fiction in general shapes our interior world"
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. May heaven exist, though my place be in hell.--'The Library of Babel'"
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. May heaven exist, though my place be in hell.--The Library of Babel"
"The English translation is a bit mid, but the original in Spanish hits hard."
"Just finished reading Borges's "Collected Fictions" and found it pretty fun."
"i've read some borges, bolaño, neruda, garcía márquez, and octavio paz, and i'm looking for recs."