"The Road Not Taken", by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), imagines a fugitive from enslavement deciding which road to take to freedom. The yellow birch forest he is passing through in autumn sheds its leaves on both possible routes and renders them indistinguishable from each other. The leaves may not have
That's interesting, I was thinking more of the conservative movements of the 1970s, how Chuck Colson took Nixon's defeat, and basically said, "Never again," creating a coalition of political forces and propaganda ("Faux News" and the like) to basically make their own pocket universe.
Current events read WAY too much like #Tlön Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by #JorgeLuisBorges these days. (It's a [must read] if you haven't already. ;)
In the documentary A Restless Content (1996), made to celebrate his 70th birthday, 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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NTj70oBA
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #translation #JorgeLuisBorges #PabloNeruda
Alastair Reid translated many Latin American writers, in particular the poetry of Borges & Neruda. In this talk from 2009, he explores the hazards & occasional felicities of translation, focusing on the influence of Borges, & of the nature of a bilingual reality
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpU2T0o-fi4
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #translation #JorgeLuisBorges #PabloNeruda
La emperatriz
Me oye teclear. No es el aporreo frenético del trabajo, sí el pausado. Se detiene, deja caer su ratita de peluche y luego sigue con su juego, un siseo que rebota contra algunos muebles de la habitación, alguna embestida más fuerte y un que otro derrape que termina en las paredes.
El mono de la tintaNo hay monos, sí gatos. La reina de la casa acompaña cuando escribo, porque se da una vuelta y me topa, para seguir su camino. Si la cosa va en serio, se enrolla a mi lado mientras me mira desde sus enormes ojos negros y amarillos. Nunca parpadea, lo cual a veces inquieta un poco. No sé si es una orden de «No aflojés» o bien su sello que está más allá del bien y del mal.
#Cotidiano #JorgeLuisBorges #MargaritaGuerreroBorges on How to Conquer Time
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/02/a-new-refutation-of-time-borges/
Domani: La relazione letteraria tra Borges e Eco sul concetto di influenza
10 anni fa, il 19 febbraio del 2016, moriva Umberto Eco, il maggiore intellettuale italiano della nostra epoca. Per ricordarlo pubblichiamo questo magnifico e lungo intervento, inedito in italiano, che lo scrittore pronunciò il 22 maggio 1997 a un convegno in Spagna dedicato alle Relazioni letterarie tra lui e Jorge Luis Borges
The literary relationship between Borges and Eco on the concept of influence
Ten years ago, on February 19, 2016, Umberto Eco, the greatest Italian intellectual of our time, died. To commemorate him, we publish this magnificent and lengthy speech, unpublished in Italian, which the writer delivered on May 22, 1997, at a conference in Spain dedicated to the literary relationships between him and Jorge Luis Borges.
Los últimos y los primeros
¿Podría proyectarse el futuro de la humanidad a partir de una hipotética guerra entre Estados Unidos y China? Por Jorgelina Áster para NLI Con la insana desmesura de Trump siempre a la vista, es razonable sospechar que la mentada paciencia de los líderes chinos está al límite. Para peor, a Europa, entre la tragedia y la caricatura civilizatoria, se la percibe comatosa. Temer una guerra chino-estadounidense ya ha dejado de ser una fantasía especulativa. Si en 1933 Cadícamo creía […]https://noticiaslainsuperable.com.ar/2026/03/01/los-ultimos-y-los-primeros/
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