/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/,

I'm working on the new version of the recommendations wiki, and I've come to the Spanish literature chart. The problem is that the chart is for Spanish-language literature in general - it mixes authors from Spain and from all of Latin America.

That doesn't translate very well to the by-country thing we're doing now, so I though it'd be good to separate them out and add more recommendations from each country. But I'm realizing a lot of the smaller Latin American countries - Ecuador, Paraguay, Puerto Rico - don't seem to have very extensive literary histories.

I thought a solution might be to include separate tables for countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Chile while including a general Latin America one for the smaller countries.

But we'll still need more recommendations for all Latin American countries, and probably Spain and Portugal while we're at it. I'll list what I have already in the next post - most of the recommendations come from the chart and from searching through /lit/'s archive and gathering the recs from previous Latin American threads.

Two questions:

Should we keep the French literature's recommendations titles in the original French, like the chart is? Or continue to put the works in translation on the table (plus a section for the ones that haven't been translated)?

Where the heck is Norse/Viking lit going to go? Is it another we'll need to divide up by country?

If anyone feels like going through the Spanish chart here and dividing up the works by the author's country of origin, that would be pretty awesome.

I am going to be in Peru for the next two months. I can read Spanish so I want some recommendations for Spanish literature aside from the ones already recommended. They will be easier to find.

Hello /lit/, I'm trying to improve my Spanish so I've been thinking about buying some books in the original language and your rec lists are very helpful but I've been wondering if you guys had any particular beginner suggestions for the very first book(s) one should start with?

I'm sure you can find something from here.

Well, I notice you haven't done too much Latin American/Spanish literature yet.

There's Roberto Bolano, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Augusto Bastos, Miguel Angel Asturias, Jose Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and others.

Any of those guys I think would be a good addition to your to-read pile.

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well then idk if L.A. lit is your place I guess but it is my favorite so I'll suggest some authors anyways

Garcia Marquez - he has some amazing short stories and novellas
Allende - House of the Spirits and Eva Luna are awesome
Vargas Llosa- Bad Girl and The Time of the Hero (his last novel and his first, respectively)
Alvarez - How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Asturias - Mulata and El Senor Presidente ( I think the English is Mr. President -- I'm not sure sorry =/)
Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
Borges - The Garden of Forking Paths and Fictions
Neruda - all his poems lol

Hey /lit/, I was wondering if you could help me start out on some spanish literature. At the moment, I have the first five and the last book in this chart ordered. So basically, I just have Roberto Bolano and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Are those authors a good start? I'm not sure where to go from here, so I suppose I may just pick randomly off this list. It would be nice if anyone had additional recommendations too.

Spanish literature general?

Sorry about that.