>claims to enjoy literature, which is mostly made of novels

>>9461845
>literature
>mostly made of novels
Novels have only been popular for 200 years at most, and excluding one-offs like Don Quixote it barely existed for most of the history of literature. The vast majority of literature is actually poetry.

Also, Borges couldn't read for half his life, so it makes sense that he wouldn't have the patience for three hundred page novels.

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>>9461845
"To classify it as perfect is neither an imprecision nor a hyperbole."

>>9461918
its is

>"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary."

Generally speaking he's right but thats only because everyone is tripping over themselves to have that one "big important book" under their belt instead if just writing good fiction. Everyone wants to write Moby Dick without even appreciating their Bartlebys

>>9461845
Poetry is the greatest art.

>>9461845
He meant that you can say that in a short story you don't need a novel

>>9461845
>i have a nice story about this lady and a friend who visit her
>dude let me describe every irrelevant thing to the story that he saw xD lmao
and that how you got 500 pages of "hard" work.

>>9461845
Books are a dead art. Motion pictures are the future of literature.