/lit/ - Literature

>>15383044
Read anything by Enrique Medina.

>>15383070
Where do I start, and why's he so good?

>>15383044
>Octavio Paz

>>15383044
Where do I start with Pablo Neruda? I've heard he's good and I speak/read Spanish, so none of that translated bullshit. Do I need to understand anything about him or about history or something before tackling him?

>>15383151
Isn't he good?

>>15383320
I don't know, man. Haven't read anything by him yet. Maybe someone else can answer that.

Three trapped tigers were an amazingly fun read. it's like a less high brow, funnier, Ulysses of cabaret Havana.

>>15384088
OP here, completely agree, great atmosphere in that book! If you like that one you should check out Infante's Inferno too.

Redpill me on Feast of the Goat
The title sounds interesting as fuck

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One of my favorite books. It's about the last days of dictator Rafael Trujillo's life, who reigned over the Dominican Republic for 31 years. It's told from three vantage points: daughter of one of Trujillo's closest allies who fell into disgrace and later in life confronts her father; the people involved in the assassination as they're waiting for Trujillo; and lastly, through the eyes of Trujillo. Absolutely fantastic book, had me seething horribly at the end. If you end up reading and liking it, I also recommend 'The War of the End of the World' by the same author, about the civil war in late 19th century Brazil. Also a good book, though a bit more dry.

>>15384394
meant to >>15384191

>>15383320
Residencia en la tierra is great. You don't need to know anything prior to reading him, though, sometimes, as any other poet of his time, it can be a little bit dense in metaphors and images. Topically, I'd say it's a little bit Eliot-esque, especially the first poem. His earliest work is too juvenille and sentimental, and aged the worst, though it remains as his most accesible, and therefore the most read,

>>15383151
Pleb

>>15383044
>Isabel Allende
A-anon I...

Read Nicanor Parra "Antipoemas" and it was very good.

>>15383151
Octavio Paz is great, you've probably just been brainwashed. He was hated because he was against communist regimes like Cuba and the Soviet Union, which obviously you had to worship because fuck the rich, fuck capitalism and fuck American imperialism amirite? and he was also in favor of the Mexican military fucking up a commie rebel uprising. This angered all the latin american "intellectuals", since most of them were extreme left marxists.
Nowadays liberal faggots in universties still hold him in some contempt because of this.

On another note related to Paz, his wife Elena Garro was also a great writer and I wholly recommend her to those interested in Latin American literature and female authors. Her short stories are particularly great, though I don't know if they've been translated. She always lived under Paz's shadow but she's been getting some much deserved posthomous recognition in the last couple of decades.

Whats some god tier poets from Latameri?

>>15387253
Nicanor Parra
Macedonio Fernández
Enrique González Martínez

>>15383151
In Light Of India is great

Fuck off spics

>>15387450
I loved Eterna's Novel by Fernandez. That book was a bitch and a half to finish but so rewarding.

This is great, I'd also recommend The Invention Of Morel and anything Borges

just bought pedro páramo
is it difficult to read in spanish?

Artforum by Cesar Aira, his most recently translated, is hilarious and nearly light-hearted. Well worth reading.

>>15387835
ooo, thank you. When Aira is good hes the best. "Conversations" by him is one of my favorites.

>>15383044
Tadeys by Lamborghini, O.
Episodios by Lamborghini, L.
El Jugador, el Juego by Lamborghini, L.
El Chorreo de las Iluminaciones by Perlongher, N.
La Condesa Sangrienta by Pizarnik, A.
Escritos Póstumos I & II by Acha, J. L.
Los Sorias by Laiseca, A.
La Tarde, Monosilabos by ibn el Barud, N.
Adán Buenosayres by Marechal, L.
Poemas de Amor by Storni, A.
All of the above are rarely found, but once the pandemic is over I'll try to .pdf most of them

>>15387855
I don't really know what people see in Lamborghini. Tadeys is the only book I own I considered burning.

>>15383151
His Sor Juana book is absolutely kino, you filthy pleb.

>>15383044
Why is shitskin literature so bad?

>>15383085
Las Tumbas

>>15387823
It's very simple but well written, kind of kafkaesque.

>>15387823
its easy to read it, but i still cant understand what the fuck did i read

>>15388217
I gather you've never read Faulkner so you're not familiat with the style.

>>15388208
>>15388217

thank you
after rulfo, i'll pick bolaño

fuck duolingo, this is how i'll learn spanish

>>15383044
Que asco

>>15388462
the only disgusting thing there is Isabel Allende.

>>15383044
>Carlos Fuentes

>>15388182
Lower IQs

>>15388617
>he hasn't read Terra Nostra
???

>>15388182
>>15388633
It's way superior than Scandinavian literature.

Why is Unamuno there if he's Spaniard?

>>15388647
This chart is better, less boomer committee authors.

>>15388182
Subhumans are unable to produce anything of value

>>15388647
>62 a model to hit
>to hit
Huh?
>>15388669
Because it's supposed to be a Hispanic lit chart.
t. Chart maker

Valeria Luiselli
Alvaro Enrigue
Alejandro Zambra
Silvina Ocampo
Yuri Herrera

>>15388675
Kinda like Scandinavian literature?

>>15388683
Enrigue and Zambra are the only writers of true worth there. Enrigue more than Zambra, of course.

>>15387835
Bolaño had said good things concerning Aira's prose but I'm totally ignorant about his works desu.

>>15384394
I rather liked The Feast of the Goat but didn't like the style of the daughter's parts. To me, the writing with her going around the city and reminiscing felt very cliche and unreal. Her interactions with other people as well. The parts that took place in the past, however, were great.
I much prefer Vargas Llosa's earlier novels like The Time of the Hero, The Green House and The Conversation in the Cathedral. They have a more primal style, the shifts in narrator are done more fluently, the stream of consciousness is more unique. I am especially fond of The Green House and how it paints such a vivid picture of the society in the city. Out of his later books, Aunt Julia and Death in Andes are great.

>>15387777
I am reading Ficciones for the first time and it is so fucking good. Borges is great.

>>15388650
I see no reason to read that piece of shit.

>>15389582
It's great. You can't really judge something you haven't even read.

a house in the country by donoso. translation felt a bit dry, want to try it or obsceno pajaro in the original spanish eventually

>>15383151
Octavio Paz es mi caga

>>15387823
At certain times the vocabulary is heavy on regionalisms from the state of Jalisco and the narrative structure of the novel can be quite difficult if you aren't familiar with stream of conciousness and non linear narratives (Rulfo borrowed a lot from Faulkner's style)

Just read Autumn of the Patriarch, feels like Marquez's best imo. Really amazing

>>15383044
>Como agua para el chocolate
Why do pseuds like this so much?