Have you ever heard about Machado de Assis, /lit/? This thread

>>9583455
>be redpilled
>see this guy posted

You know what I think. For me, personally, Brazilians will never understand literature like a Western writer

>>9583466
>For me, personally, Brazilians will never understand literature like a Western writer

Explain

>>9583455
I just picked up Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas today and I'm quite liking it so far.
Heard about him only thanks to /lit/

>>9583477
Susan Sontag considered Machado de Assis better than Borges so you may as well enjoy the ride.

>>9583485
how does she even compare the two?

>>9583487
Because Borges was a cuck who never read Machado but loved Eça de Queiroz.

>>9583487
I think the logic is both are latin-americans

>>9583496
In both are masters when is about short-stories.

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>>9583466
>Brazil isn't part of the West

I'm genuinely curious. How does that work?

Even if you tell me that "The West" isn't a geographical concept but a cultural one, how would you justify the US being "Western" and Brazil and everyone else in Latin America not being "Western". Weren't they all colonized by European powers? Or don't you recognize Portugal and Spain as "Western"?

>>9583497
And*

>>9583505
its just because Brazil and Latin-America are brownish.

>>9583505
The West is supposed to be white and developed.