tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post1174657850346885846..comments2024-02-24T20:29:17.083-05:00Comments on MINDFUL PLEASURES: Belated Bloomsday 2014: They Do Joyce in Differant VoycesBRIAN OARDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-13163213700517379832014-10-25T19:44:22.881-04:002014-10-25T19:44:22.881-04:00Yes, I know he was an admirer of Ulysses, although...Yes, I know he was an admirer of <i>Ulysses,</i> although I also know he had an ambivalent relationship with Joyce; his thoughts on <i>Finnegans Wake</i> were less warm, in fact his putdown of it is hilarious.<br /><br />But I think there's a great difference between admiring one particular novel and being influenced by it. In fact I'm not sure his admiration of that particular novel remained intact into old age. Talking to Osvaldo Ferrari in the 1980s, he shows a total lack of interest in Joyce's verbal games and stands up for Kafka's simplicity. In case you're interested:<br /><br />http://storberose.blogspot.pt/2012/09/borges-on-kafka-shakespeare-joyce-and.htmlLMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-19007145452981375782014-10-19T10:06:29.724-04:002014-10-19T10:06:29.724-04:00An intriguing post; I wouldn't have thought of...An intriguing post; I wouldn't have thought of some of these texts as owing a debt to Joyce, but now I see they do. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-33985876711412769142014-10-18T12:31:40.457-04:002014-10-18T12:31:40.457-04:00@Miguel (St. Orberose):
True, the influence of Ka...@Miguel (St. Orberose):<br /><br />True, the influence of Kafka on Borges is like the influence of the Sun on the Earth. It's huge and obvious. But Borges was also a very early and enthusiastic reader of <i>Ulysses</i>, of which he wrote as early as 1925. His breathless response to the reading is included in the English-language edition of his <i>Selected Non-Fictions</i> (Penguin 1999). Of course, Borges's influences are legion; they fill Babelian libraries. One might remark that the essayistic form of many of his fictions owes much to Thomas De Quincey and the British Romantic essayists. And I'm intrigued by the Borges-Bierce connection evident in "The Secret Miracle" vis a vis Bierce's "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge," a connection critics have noted.BRIAN OARDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-3272168746242320282014-10-17T08:58:46.274-04:002014-10-17T08:58:46.274-04:00Borges was more than likely influenced by Kafka, w...Borges was more than likely influenced by Kafka, whom he read in German when he was a teenager living in Switzerland. Surely that's where the mingling of the ordinary and the fantastic and his objective, sober report of the wondrous come from.LMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-7557117795106633472014-10-16T22:59:43.060-04:002014-10-16T22:59:43.060-04:00@Corey:
Yes, several years ago. The Joe Gould ess...@Corey:<br /><br />Yes, several years ago. The Joe Gould essays and the piece on Mohawk skyscraper workers stick in my mind. Good book.BRIAN OARDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-58723879228506935352014-10-16T20:14:57.500-04:002014-10-16T20:14:57.500-04:00Have you read up in the old hotel by Joseph Mitche...Have you read up in the old hotel by Joseph Mitchell?Bacchushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06204607493057991447noreply@blogger.com