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#JorgeLuisBorges

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A quotation from Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
 
[Las dictaduras fomentan la opresión, las dictaduras fomentan el servilismo, las dictaduras fomentan la cureldad; más abominable es el hecho de que fomentan la idiotez.]

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine writer
Speech (1946), “Hurry, Hurry [De’le, De’le],” Argentine Society of Letters [JLB 57]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/borges-jorge-luis/21…

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Gary Hall

‘How much more effective and more accurate it would be, [Jorges Luis Borges] mused, to say “it thinks” rather than “I think”. Stress would then no longer be laid on man as the cause and effect, he would then be considered more an instrument responsive to external events.’

- Jasia Reichardt, ‘A Meeting with Borges’, Jorge Luis Borges: My Work In Prose, A Lecture Given in London, May 6, 1971 (London: Obscure Publications, 1971) p.iv.

Only just got hold of this booklet over the weekend, so hadn’t seen this when developing the ‘I:ts’ idea in Masked Media. Wish I had. Would have made a great epigraph.

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Escritores Malditos

Jorge Luis Borges | The unending gift
[en «Elogio de la sombra» 1969]
“¿Un pintor nos prometió un cuadro.
Ahora, en New England, sé que ha muerto. Sentí, como otras veces, la tristeza de comprender que somos como un sueño. Pensé en el hombre y en el cuadro perdidos. (Sólo los dioses pueden prometer, porque son inmortales.)”[...] Seguir leyendo en: tinyurl.com/24pdmwrk
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#JorgeLuisBorges #EscritoresMalditos #locagonia

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The whole documentary is available to watch online from the Leman Productions archive: Alastair Reid reflects on 30 years of writing for the NEW YORKER magazine, & his remarkable literary friendships with Robert Graves, Jorge Luis Borges & Pablo Neruda

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youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NTj70oB

YouTubeAlastair Reid - "A RESTLESS CONTENT" - BBC Music & Arts Film Documentary 1996By LEMAN PRODUCTIONS ARCHIVE
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“A fool can utter a brilliant sentence but it seems quite rare for a fool to be able to write an admirable biography of seven or eight hundred pages…”

Jorge Luis Borges asks, Was Boswell just an idiot who had the good fortune to meet Johnson & write his biography? Or is this “Samuel Johnson” actually a brilliant dramatic character created by Boswell?

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nybooks.com/online/2013/07/28/

The New York Review of BooksA Lecture on Johnson and Boswell | Jorge Luis BorgesWe have to think that just as Sancho is the companion Quixote sometimes treats badly, we see Boswell in that same relation to Dr. Johnson: a sometimes stupid and loyal companion. There are characters whose role is to bring out the hero’s personality, and that character in Boswell’s work is Boswell himself. That is, Boswell appears as a despicable character. But it seems impossible to me that Boswell didn’t realize this. And this shows that Boswell positioned himself in contrast to Johnson. The fact that Boswell himself tells anecdotes in which he appears ridiculous makes him not seem ridiculous at all, for if he wrote them down, he did it because he saw that the purpose of the anecdote was to make Johnson stand out.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“I remember the first novel in English I read through was a Scottish novel called The House with the Green Shutters. […] When I read that, I wanted to be Scotch.”

—Jorge Luis Borges, interviewed by the Paris Review in July 1966

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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Borges #JorgeLuisBorges

theparisreview.org/interviews/

The Paris ReviewThe Art of Fiction No. 39Jorge Luis Borges. Photographer unknown.   This interview was conducted in July 1966, in conversations I held with Borges at his office in the Biblioteca Nacional, of which he is the director. The room, recalling an older Buenos Aires, is not really an office at all but a large, ornate, high-...
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#7Books of a lifetime - and to #knowme - fiction only, no order …

Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit - #MarcelProust
Das Buch von Himmel und Hölle - #JorgeLuisBorges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
Land des Lachens - #JonathanCarroll
Reise um den Tag in 80 Welten - #JulioCortazar
Sudelbücher - #GeorgChristophLichtenberg
Erzählungen - #AntonCechov
Owen Meany - #JohnIrving
Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz - #IrmtraudMorgner
But ... Jean Paul, Büchner, Kafka, Woolf … Oh!
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