Can anyone explain what the Spanish story "Los Fracasados" by Marco Denevi is about?

Serena

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Can anyone explain what the Spanish story "Los Fracasados" by Marco Denevi is about?

thanks a lot!
 
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Cleanthess

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Re: Can anyone explain what the Spanish story "Los Fracasados" by Marco Denevi is abo

3 years too late for homework, but hey!, better late than never.

Via my favorite Spanish language blog, IlCorvino:

http://ilcorvino.blogspot.com/2013/04/la-camilocanegatizacion-y-un-consejo.html

At a certain gathering of writers, at least, according to Bioy's diary, Denevi was seated at one end of the table and Borges at the opposite end. Denevi said that he couldn't believe how historians have been duped with the obvious imposture of Zen Buddhism, which was clearly a practical joke played upon the actual Buddhism. And then Borges, from his solitary and recondite corner yelled: 'What are you complaining about? Didn't they swallow Christianity too?'

'En una reunión de escritores de ésas que se cuentan en el diario de Bioy, Denevi comía en una punta y Borges en otra. Denevi decía que no podía creer cómo la historia se comió el bolazo del budismo zen, que para él era una broma sobre el budismo original. Entonces Borges, desde su unánime e íntima punta, gritó: “¿Y qué quiere? ¡También se creyeron el cristianismo!'
 
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