[Stewart]

Originally Posted by Heteronym

So Borges didn't like Gabo? I find that amazing. If you have the time, Stewart, kindly add a few more names Borges rejected. I have a morbid curiosity for this type of trivia.

Here's the paragraph:

One could construct a perfectly acceptable history of literature consisting only of the authors Borges rejected: Austen, Goethe, Rabelais, Flaubert (except the first chapter of Bouvard et Pécuchet), Calderón, Stendhal, Zweig, Maupassant, Boccaccio, Proust, Zola, Balzac, Galdós, Lovecraft, Edith Wharton, Neruda, Alejo Carpentier, Thomas Mann, García Márquez, Amado, Tolstoi, Lope de Vega, Lorca, Pirandello...He wasn't interested (after the experiments of his youth) in novelty for the sake of novelty. He said that the writer should not have the impoliteness of suprising the reader. He sought in literature conclusions that were both astonishing and obvious. Recalling that Ulysses, tired of prodigies, wept for love at the sight of his green Ithaca, he concluded: 'Art should be like that Ithaca - of green eternity, not of prodigies.'