/lit/ - Literature

>>20973348
I have A Heart So White. Good night, sweet king of Redonda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Redonda

>>20973348
En paz descanse
I feel kinda bad because I had him in my necroporra, what a fluke!
He was one of the best modern Spanish novelists

>>20973405
>He was one of the best modern Spanish novelists
And with him dies Spain's chance at a Nobel for Literature.

>>20973411
We're fucked but to be fair, we really have like more than 3 Nobel Prizes, everyone knows Vicente Aleixandre one was for the whole 27 generation... Guillén, Alberti and Dámaso were still alive, right?

>>20973431
I still don't know how Echegaray got his.

>>20973437
Oh fuck that makes it 4, forgot about him, only had Juanrra and Cela in mind

>>20973437
I still don't know how Galdós did not get it.

>>20973360
>tfw Marías will never make you a duke in his fictional kingdom
why even live?

MODS STICKY THIS

>>20973348
Why are his novels so bad when his essays are so good

>>20973348
He should have won the Nobel—not some random as Ngobonogo Who

>>20973751
Hey you tell good jokes, can you write?

>>20973348
sticky when

>>20973348
>literal who
>helplessly mogged by Sanderson
>dios mio!

RIP

>>20973867
>Sanderson
who?

>>20973867
>mogged by a literal who chubby chinlet
Okay

>>20973755
Agree.

>>20973348
who cares, the queen of the commonwealth just died

>>20973938
That was like three days ago and she was a million years old. Who cares about some old bag (in Norm's words).

>>20973949
she was probably the most famous woman in the world tbf

>>20973968
Who?

>>20973348
Bolaño said Marías was the best Spanish prose stylist of our days.

Cunqueiro did everything Marias was trying to.do a thousand times better

>>20973992
>t.ESL

Kino is back on the menu

>>20973993
No shit paco

>>20973992
>writes in patois
>expects to be taken seriously

>>20973992
Cunqueiro was great too, no need to fight
t. Galego

>>20973348
9 days before his birthday. Some people probably already got a present for him. Fuck, imagine how that feels now.

¿Quién?

whoa, talk about coincidence, I literally read about this guy for the first time and checked out the Infatuations from the library on Friday. RIP i guess, I will read you soon.

>>20974038
>zoomer doesn't know how to google

>>20974043
Today is my father's birthday and Marías is a writer I like. Bittersweet day.

>a spaniard author with just name and surname
I would read his works. Fuck Perez Reverte.

>>20974069
Pérez-Reverte is a single surname, Anon.

>>20974081
Still fuck him.

>>20974069
I'm ESL and only until a year ago or so thought spaniard is an insult for spanish people, like people say ameritard.

>>20974087
Why? The Alatriste series is comfy swashbuckler fun. Worthy of Dumas.

>>20974092
It doesn't even have the -tard suffix.

>>20974095
I mean himself, some of his works are fine.

>>20974103
What did he do? I'm not familiar with his personal life. He was a combat correspondant, right?

>>20973348
Never read anything from him, but
>chad jaw
>hunter eyes (although tired ones)
>big strong hands
>strong shoulders/upper body
I know from that alone that his book are probably good

>>20974108
>when looxmaxx incels get into literature

>>20974101
Close enough

>>20974125
Not for native speakers.

>>20974105
He meant his a fag and would fuck him.

So not a single good Spanish writer alive now, right?
Maybe Mendoza.

>>20974158
Vila-Matas

>>20973348
He was my idol. I will never meet him now :(

>>20974158
Cercas.

>>20974158
Juan José Escofet Carmona.

One of the greatest writers of our times. Virtually unknown by Amerifats who think literature died with David Foster Wallace. Hopefully after his death he will become more widely known in the Anglosphere.

>>20974356
He’s well known here, you recessed chin spic

>>20974356
Anglos who read literature know him. Of course redditors don't even know him but connoisseurs know alright.

STICKY FUCKING WHEN AAAAHHHHH
HE WON'T DIE AGAIN, MODS
THIS IS JAVIER MARÍAS WE'RE TALKING
STOP JERKING IT TO HENTAI AND STICKY THIS THREAD RIGHT NOWW

>>20973348
Mala Educacion was an extremely fun read.
Rest in peace, my fellow Elvis fan.

>>20973348
Fun fact: When Marías was a baby he lived with his family in the same house Nabokov lived for some time.

Los enamoramientos

>>20974459
So funny lmao

RIP
Is this the guy who wrote tons of books based on other books?

>>20973348
What everyman is this btw? I know it's a 20th century book.

>>20974000
kek this some good reprints are probably gonna come out

>>20973992
Rec me a Cunqueiro book.

>>20974108
A little bit gay but you do you.

>>20974043
Same here, RIP.

Where should I start with him, what do you recommend, /lit/?

Ok so where to start? something short preferably

>>20974554
That's Borges

>>20973348
I own three Marías books. The one on the left is a 25th anniversary edition. The ones on the right are first editions.
>>20974592
Start with A Heart So White.

>>20974657
He write about women?

>>20974660
Men and women.

>>20974615
kys

>>20974029
>Saved myself some funeral trouble!

>>20974554
Maybe you're thinking about Enrique Vila-Matas.

>>20974657
He was an editor for the one on the right. It's a compilation of horror/ghost/fantastic short stories by forgotten, obscure or peculiar authors. Marías wrote one story using a pseudonym and included it in the compilation for the lulz, so you have to guess which one is the one by him.

>>20974915
Fuck! You're right. My bad.

>>20974657
>Start with A Heart So White.
thanks

>Another Faulkner cocksucker loved by readers with a middle class education
YAWWWN

>>20975535
He liked Nabokov, Conrad, Sterne as well. Unsure why Americans fixate on and hate Faulkner.

>>20975535
Love Faulkner. Love Nabokov. Simple as.

Still no sticky
Jannies don't care

>>20973348
This was unexpected, I was thinking about him yesterday. I never had his books in the highest esteem, but he did had remarkable passages and was a sensible writer, although tiring at times, with a great talent to write the begging of his novels. I hope he gets edited more now, and in an affordable price, all the books I've got from him were like ten years old when I first got them. And hopefully they will reissue his translation of Sterne, arguably his masterpiece.
Descansa en paz, viejo insoportable.
>>20973485
>Bourdieau
kek

>>20975580
Stickies have the purpose of channeling a stream of content, they're not an omaggio or whatever you want them to be. Go check for yourself if you can find another Marías thread in the board right now and see if there's actually any need for a sticky.

>>20975597
Writers get a sticky when they die. It's board culture.

>>20975597
I actually didn't make any other thread because I was waiting for the sticky. Fuck.

>>20975608
This
I don't even care if Murakami or a random american jew gets it at long as the really important ones get one too

>>20975608
Authors that drag content are given stickies because if not the whole board becomes unusable. Most of the time when a great but not so famous writer dies (and not an Anglo, for what is worth) jannies don't give stickies. I remember Laiseca got no sticky. Fucking jannies man.

>>20975608
Also iirc Philip Roth didn't even had one, no? Either way, /lit/'s culture's been dead and buried for a long time now bucko

>>20975535
>t. Esl spic hating faulkner spamming again

>>20973348
Who?

>>20975645
But spics love Faulkner? They hate the ones that emulate his style with diminishing returns

>>20975654
>diminishing returns
>Benet exists
git better fagget

>>20975645
Only yankees hate Faulkner with such passion. The New York types who love postmodernism and Jewish writers.

>>20975661
but why

>>20975654
>¿es que no sabe que en este pueblo es verdadera devoción lo que hay por Faulkner?

>>20975658
Which Benet?

>>20975713
Juan of course

>>20975713
JonBenet Ramsey

Spanish is the language of rape babies and child prostitutes.

>>20975753
Whatever you say about Spanish, English is worse. English is a barbarian language of savages who only discovered civilization through the Latin tongue, of which Spanish is a direct development.

>>20973348
Did he had any good books.

>>20973348
I just finished reading A Heart So White a few days ago. It was the first book I had read by him. Are any of his others worth reading?

>>20976295
Dark Back of Time and All Souls.

>>20976295
Written Lives should be your next and last.

>>20974158
Andrés Ibáñez Segura

>>20975681
Because southern soul is the only genuine organic American culture.

>>20975535
He liked Shakespeare and Sterne too.

bump

>>20973348
genuinely sad news 70 years old that is young in todays world dying from penumonia as well what a meme
i like him but feel like saramago does a similiar style but better
still well worth reading and a genuine loss to literature

>>20976342
Literally who?

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR NOT DOING A STICKY FOR THE KING OF REDONDA, STUPID FUCKING WORTHLESS MODS. DIE OF FUCKING AIDS IN YOUR FILTHY TRANNY ASS.

>>20974564
It's difficult, for prose I'd say Las cronicas del Sochantre and for non-fiction Viajes imaginarios y reales
He was a true master of his art

>>20973992
That says way more about Marías than Cunqueiro.

>>20973348
>>20977805
It was COVID:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022

>>20978370
Javier was in comma since August.

>>20978685
I put him there