Why is the top level Latin American literature so good? Is it just a low probability event, or is it something about the culture?
Why is the top level Latin American literature so good? Is it just a low probability event...
What do you mean by low probability event?
brown people dumb
Pure chance, nowadays each one of the Latam countries are crawling with retards and narcos and shit
Our ''good'' culture is destroyed already
Latin American literature is a fad that will pass.
South American has been culturally and ethnically colonized by Europe, sure it's not the US or Canada but the level of European admixture is pretty high, it was particularly true before WWII.
I recently discovered Adolfo Bioy Casares, very good writer, a friend of Borges, the guy was descended from people from the Béarn (a region in France), and by descended I mean his great-grandfather and his grand-father were both born on French soil. So he was like at least 50% French. He's far from an exception. South American literature is just an extension of European literature, just like the literature of the US and Canada. That's why we can appreciate it, very few people in Europe think Chinese literature is good, except for the few autists who actually read it.
There are still a few remnants of high Spanish culture within Latin America and they shine particularly bright because they are surrounded by shit.
I didn't know they wrote books in them parts
name a few books that you've liked
Suffering breeds good art. That's why Scandinavia hasn't produced much of worth in the last century. Too much comfort kills art.
They same could be said about any kind of literature. Art phases are cyclical, anyway.
they write books all around the globe, you just haven't paid attention.
Is or was? Not sure if there are any good Latam writers on the level of Borges, Garcia Marquez or Cortazar.
most of them have high percentage european ancestry meaning they were born into a readily literate and artistic family. prove me wrong.
Vallejo and Arguedas were not (there are more, of course). They were both native to Quechua and mixed.
As Latino american, I'm pretty proud of my subcontinent.
Why haven't swedes or Ukranians or Lithuanians (i could go on) produced good literature then?
Garcia also looks non-white
I believe he was not talking about ethnicity but about upbringing, that's why I mentioned two that were native to Quechua
I missed solely*
nobel prize Miguel Asturias was almost a full blood maya
Not surprising, Mayas are honestly based AF.
Ficciones y Artificios by Borges
Bestiario by Cortázar
Pedro Páramo by Rulfi
Neruda was mestizo, born in a poor family. He learned French in high school though, something pretty normal at those times