/lit/ - Literature

>>20143418
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Cien años de soledad
why yes they are the only books set in Latin America I have read, how could you tell?

>>20143418
Choose a country you dense frog.

Pedro Paramo
Nostromo (set in a fictional South American country based on Colombia/Panama)
Borges and Cortazar for short stories

>>20143418
Book of the New Sun

the war of the end of the world

>>20143418
Set in Mexico (just off the top of my head):
>Pedro Paramo
>News from the Empire
>2666
>The Savage Detectives
>Under the Volcano
>The Power and the Glory
>The Underdogs
>Treasure of the Sierra Madre
>All the Pretty Horses

>>20143464
>>20143481
Thanks anons
>>20143429
Fuck you

2666 is the best incidental view of Mexico I've read.

>>20143503
>incidental view
wdym

>>20143509
The novel is not explicitly about Mexico itself. The story travels through there as a result of the plot, and the musings on the country come across as secondary, but are no less compelling.

Blood Meridian
Under the Volcano
The Power and the Glory
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

>>20143481
the underdogs is really good. I second that one.

>>20143418
There's a few schools of describing south america, the school of Quiroga and the Juan Rulfo school of deep humanistic view points

Quiroga spawns Garcia marquez and the magic realist style, that benefits from the mysterious nature of the continent while Rulfo just explains how things look like from their own viewpoint, which spawns the local narratives where people describes common events particular to their geographical locations

The blurring and merging of this two concepts are what drive the most mainstream south american literature, the freaks the outlaws and poetry in general is a quite more complicated subject of study

>>20143561
>There's a few schools of describing south america, the school of Quiroga and the Juan Rulfo school of deep humanistic view points
Latin America*

>>20143503

>>20143590
From El Chaco to el Rio Grande, basically covers most of it

Sobre héroes y tumbas by Ernesto Sabato.

>>20143418
The Dog of the South

>>20143488
No, fuck you. 20,111,457 km2, 20 countries, 14 dependencies, make up your fucking mind.

El Llano en llamas

>>20143640
Juan Rulfo is not South American.

>>20143418
tex willer goes to mexico from time to time

>>20143753
Nope mexican that's where the Rio Grande is duh

>>20143764
>There's a few schools of describing south america, the school of Quiroga and the Juan Rulfo
Rulfo literally never described South America

>>20143418
I think you meant "Hispanoamérica" Pedro Páramo is the best but I would Aldo recommend "El Señor Presidente" by Miguel Ángel Asturias

>>20143767
Not what XXth century south american writers felt, am just describing schools of writing based on what book did they all got to read, I could quote fantasy stuff, realism, social novel, and existentialism but no one read those until 50 to a hundred years later

>>20143860
>muh fee fees
kek Rulfo is not South American and never described South America, all his fiction is set in Mexico.

>>20143418
Any Bobby Bolano
recently read this and it was a good read. short, sweet, brutal

>>20143863
The point sure went over your head eh?

He describes desolate places full of barking dogs and few towns, that's how all of latin america looked back then, more or less jungles, if you had more jungles you had Quiroga

>>20143904
>The point sure went over your head eh?
Your 'point' was presented inaccurately. You were talking about South America, I already quoted you.
>more or less jungles
There aren't jungles in Rulfo's work. He's about arid areas.

The War of the End of the World — Vargas Llosa
A Hundred Years of Solitude — Garcia Marques
Dry Lives — Gracilano Ramos

>>20143994
Oh I forgot the most based one
>Time and the Wind, by Érico Verissimo

>>20143418
Il cognizione del dolore

>>20143418
L'homme à cheval

>>20143946
You were just trolling me makes sense

Point taken I will spare the country of france next time yet not his meme writers, england is a lost cause though

>>20143711
NO. FUCK YOU. REEEEEEEEE

test

>>20144109
Idiota

>>20143418
Los bandidos de Río Frío

>>20143994
>Graciliano Ramos
Right, but Brazil is not Latin America

>>20144109
>makes a mistake
>gets corrected
>"You were trolling me"
??

>>20144690
It is, by definition.

>>20144690
Yes it is
You're thinking of Hispanoamerica

>>20144729
his point is Rulfo’s work reflects life in Mexico and South America you pedantic aspie

>>20144771
If only there was a term that could group together Mexico and South America...

>>20144734
>>20144753
I'm afraid it isn't. Not that "Latin America" is a valid concept, to begin with.

>>20144776
Or we could talk about america or that's way to much to handle for the british empire?

>>20144800
Latin America without Brazil is calles Hispanic America. Brazil is in the Americas and Brazilians speak Portuguese (a Latin-based language), therefore, it's part of Latin America.

>>20144800
Is this nigga serious?

>>20144812
You are clearly ignorant on the origin and purposed usage of the term, so you assign an arbitrary meaning to it. Iberian America or Iberoamerica would be a perfecly useful and correct way to designate the region, without making use of a politically charged exonym.
>>20144818
Don't use that word to me. I'm Latinx (PoC).

>>20144885
bait

>>20144771
Why are you so defensive when they are just trying to tell you that you're confusing different parts of the world? Next time you'll ask not to be corrected when you call Hemingway Canadian

>>20144812
Quebec is in the Americas, and they speak a Latin-based language, so Quebec is part of Latin America too, right?

>>20144962
Quebec is not a country.

>>20143428
That's fine, Gabochad.

>>20144690
Brazil is Afro America.

>>20145032
That's better

>>20145018
Alright Socrates, nicely done.

The Death of Artemio Cruz

>>20144690
It is, it’s just not hispanic. Retard.

>>20143994
While quite good in itself, I'd put The War of the End of the World at Vargas Llosa's 5th or 6th best book at most. My suggestion is instead The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversation in the Cathedral or Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

>>20146895
Just got Conversation
Looks very promising

>>20144690
the war of the end of the world is set in Brazil too.

>>20143418
The Death of Artemio Cruz

>>20143902
This is the most disturbing book I've ever read despite having a lot of humor and warmth in places. I had really weird, dark nightmares about the entire world ending for like two months after finishing. It was phenomenal but I'll never read it again

>>20146895
>Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
that's a funny translation, I never heard that one before.
scriptwriters are not gonna like it lol

>>20146895
>The Green House
I dropped that pretentious literary exercise after the first chapter. Why would anyone willingly undergo such a punishment?

>>20143418
One hundred years of solitude
The time of the hero
Cortázar's short stories: All fires the fire, end of the game
Borges in general

I'm a basic bitch I know

Fernanda Melchor: Paradais.

English translation just dropped this last week in Bongland. I read it in two sittings, it's pretty good desu although the ending is not entirely as you feel it should be; feels like it should lead up to something more explosive but, idk it's still good. Recommended.

>>20148449
Better than Hurricane Season?

>>20148506
Haven't read that one but I now plan on it. All I can say is it's good desu lad. Very gritty and in your face, brutal at times. Hope that is what Hurricane Season is like.

>>20147966
>Why would anyone willingly undergo such a punishment?
Because I liked the Chapter 8 of the Part II of Madame Bovary.

>>20145189
Why that one?

>>20149029
Because its good

>>20149899
It's about a literal nigger on his deathbed.

>>20149911
Yes