/lit/ - Literature

>>17316185
>>17316203
Rogelio de Egusquiza apparently


>>17316179
Ahh yes. You have to be absolutely perfect before you call what's evil evil. Again, you are retarded. Your comeback is proof enough of this.

>>17303299
I am Brazilian with some Anglo (but no Spanish) ancestry, and therefore consider myself impartial on this issue, yet acquainted enough with it in order to comment.

Anyone who tries to dismiss Spanish literature as being just Cervantes is so incredibly ignorant that they haven't even read the most popular literary critic in the world, Harold Bloom, who was a very great admirer of such Spanish poets as Garcia Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Vicente Aleixandre and Rafael Alberti.
Nor have they read any romantic critics, who exalted to a very high level such classical Spanish authors as Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega.
Nor are they familiar with the literary history of the Baroque, which simply cannot skip Góngora and Quevedo. In fact, English critics such as T.S. Eliot who exalted the metaphysical poets in the early 20th century, had they read a little bit more Spanish, would also have done the same to Quevedo, whose poetry carries a philosophical charge as high as that of John Donne, and is superior to that of Chapman and Marvell.
I could go on and on. Spaniards were pretty much the inventors of the *modern* novel, starting with such books as the Lazarillo de Tormes and culminating in Cervantes. They also had some of the greatest religious writers of all time, including St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross. How many characters does English literature have who are as famous as D. Quixote, Sancho Panza, and Don Juan? Only Hamlet, for Romeo and Juliet actually belong to Italian literature.

Pic related: an illustration of a Spanish book. If you don't know it, it just shows that you have a very, very profound ignorance of Western culture, and have likely never read a single book on the history of literature in your life.

Here is an interview with Harold Bloom in which he talks about Spanish literature: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/5391/1/RAEI_09_12.pdf

Look what he has to say about Calderón:

>HB: Calderón has an immense influence on Shelley, an immense influence on Goethe. It's very hard to conceive either part of Faust without Calderón. [It's] very difficult to think of Shelley without Calderón...very difficult to think of [Hugo] von Hofmannsthal.

>>17303374
Not true. Everyone knows Anglo literature, due to its being written in the contemporary lingua franca. I am pretty sure every (serious) Spanish academic can read English fluently. If here in Brazil that is already the case, then in Spain - where the educational system is much better - I am pretty sure it is too.

Does that make image-based arts superior to literature?