Tomasso May 28:

On second thought,... On second thought, seems quotes by and about Borges would support Wasteland, intelectual and cultural....Por ejemplo
Maldito Jorge Luis Borges - La moneda de hierro 1976
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... yermo universitario de East Lansing y en mi recobrado país, no valdrá mucho más ni mucho menos que los anteriores volúmenes. ( page 26 )
, Ramón Doll said that Borges’s writings
lacked emotion because “él prefiere helarse las entrañas … toda su expresión
[es] frígida, donde la emoción es espiada y luego anestesiada deliberadamente
… no encontraremos en su prosa sino un yermo intelectual sin jugos vitales
y sin aliento.”31

neilmac May 28:

My take I'd leave out trying to translate the wasteland bit directly and just go with something like "For what it's worth,Borges also published his universal history… although later he would distance himself from it."

Paul Adie May 28:

. I was a bit doubtful of wilderness as yermo means barren land, nothing on it. Wilderness suggests things growing. Is the author trying to say that Borges launched this book when there was not anything going on in the field, or a lot?