Bookplanet: the problem with Nabokov and Borges

"Sterile fathers: Borges and Nabokov." Writes Chilean writer and journalist Rafael Gumucio: "Their works are great, and their influence devastating I sometimes think at night. Both assure themselves that the rules which govern the world are inscrutable and accessible to no soul, that society can neither be changed nor preserved. Their contemporary epigones help themselves to their manias but the essence escapes them.
We have trimmed Borges' shamefacedness into a standardised puritanism to shield us from ridicule.
And we have turned Nabokov's lies into our truths.
So many hits with no certainty, so many games with no fun, sometimes it makes me quite dizzy, it worries me sick. Because as much as we might contest it and conspire against it: the earth is still turning, and after all the literary games and showy scepticism, we are still hungry and thirsty."