Can we meme this man to the heights of literary merit he deserves?

>Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 – March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer

dropped

>>8937777
b-but, he's the next gene wolfe!

>>8937777

He's the best short fiction writer since Borges, easily.

>>8937782

Not even close. Lafferty and Wolfe share only thematic elements tied to Catholicism. Their styles are almost polar opposites. Lafferty is much more of satirist who flirts with absurdist tendencies. Wolfe is a symoblist.

>>8937597
>old (now dead) straight white male
>achieving literary merit in the 2010s

>>8937788
Why is Borges considered so great?
Hes basically latin-america Lovecraft decades later

>>8937597
Not really. Genius but too much of a mixed bag. You'd need an influential editor to re-release a selected collection and then refer to his work in noisy articles about those popular modern topics.
There was one guy (you?) going through his oeuvre working on a full academic study, but that's a passion project, not a cynically calculated shill.

>>8937816
t. monoglot

In all seriousness, though, Borges writes a lot of genuinely clever, cerebral pieces, and even the English translations are wonderful. They're better in Spanish because the occasional metaphor doesn't carry over, but you'd have to be completely brain-dead not to at least see that he's a better writer than Lovecraft.

>>8942028
>the occasional metaphor doesn't carry over,
How does a metaphor not carry across languages

>>8937597
No, keep him obscure and away from the plebs.

>tfw The Devil is Dead is the real successor to Ulysses

Wasnt there going to be a reprinting of his stuff? Any new on that?

>>8942028
Except at writing Lovecraft. His Lovecraft parody was really one of his lesser works.

>>8945255
There has, a deluxe expensive one AFAIK, not an actual readers' reprint. You can find ebooks made by fans for most of his published works.