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THE ADVICE OF BORGES

The Argentine master decides to give some advice to those still we are confused when writing a story and why not a novel. At conferences and media interviews, Borges reveals some of the steps he turned to his literary creation, undoubtedly, one of the most important in Latin America.

Adolfo Bioy Casares, in a special issue of French magazine L'Herne, that thirty years ago, Borges, Silvina Ocampo himself and six hands projected write a story set in France and whose hero had was a young writer from the provinces. The story was never written, but that sketch has become a thing of the Borges: an ironic list Sixteen tips on what a writer should never put on their books *

In literature should be avoided:

1. The performances too conformist works or celebrities. For example, describing the misogyny of Don Juan, etc..

2. The pairs of characters grossly dissimilar or contradictory, such as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes and Watson.

3. The practice of characterizing the characters for their hobbies, as does, for example, Dickens.

4. In the development of plot, action bizarre games in time or space, as do Faulkner, Borges and Bioy Casares.

5. In the poems, situations or characters that the reader can identify.

6. The characters that can become myths.

7. The phrases, the scenes intentionally linked to a certain place or certain time, ie, the local environment.

8. The chaotic enumeration.

9. Metaphors in general and in particular the visual metaphors. More specifically still, the agricultural metaphors, naval or bank. Example absolutely inadvisable: Proust.

10. Anthropomorphism.

11. The making of novels whose plot is reminiscent of another book. For example, Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey.

12. Writing books that seem menus, Albums, itineraries or dates.

13. Anything that can be illustrated. All you can suggest the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing turned into a movie.

14. In the critical essays, any historical or biographical reference. Always avoid references to the personality or the private lives of the authors studied. Above all, avoid psychoanalysis.

15. The domestic scenes in detective stories, the dramatic scenes in the philosophical dialogues. And finally:

16. Avoid vanity, modesty, pedophilia, the absence of pedophilia, suicide. FIN

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