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I think Spanish as a language has one of the richest literary traditions so what is your favorite book written in Spanish? What is your favorite Spanish-language author?

>> No.17245642

>>17245636
lmao

>> No.17245645

>>17245636
Pedro Paramo is incredible highly recommend

>> No.17245649

>>17245636
Recommend me some Hispanic play writers, anon. I'm reading a bunch of them and I don't think I ever read one.

>> No.17245656

>>17245649
I'm the quoted anon. I'm Brazilian, so I'm probably going to read it in Spanish. Some poetic stuff wouldn't be bad.

>> No.17245672

>>17245636
>>17245649
Federico García Lorca is great if you haven't heard of him already

>> No.17245833

>>17245649
Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

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>>17245636
Enrique Medina is so underated.

>> No.17245945

>>17245636
Top kek

>> No.17246222

Sor Juana

>> No.17246774

>>17245636
trying to become fluent in portuguese, so i'm hoping i will be able to read spanish eventually without too much trouble. i really like rafael sanchez ferlosio, writer of River and The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui, both of which I really enjoyed in translation (margaret jull costa)

>> No.17246798

>>17245636
Paradiso

>> No.17246951

>>17245636
El Obsceno Pájaro de la Noche

>> No.17247250

>>17246774
What Portuguese language books do you intend to read?
I made a short guide based on my readings: >>/lit/thread/S16923872#p16926198

>> No.17247258

>>17245636
César Vallejo

>> No.17247315
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17247315

Mexico's coolest president by far

>> No.17247434

>>17245645
Redpill me on this novel.

>> No.17247560

>>17245649
Zorrilla ta guay.

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Also 2666

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>> No.17248843

test

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>>17245642
>>17245945

>> No.17249098

>>17246798
>Paradiso
redpill me on it porfavor

>> No.17249108

>>17245890
sounds interesting, would you tell me more about it?

>> No.17249190

>>17245649
Unamuno's plays are tremendously neglected

>> No.17249206

>>17249190
>dude god
>dude fascism bad
>dude españita
>dude parables
>dude ehpaña
>dude fuck europe
>dude viva ehpaña coño
>dude ehpaña y dioh
>ehpaña dioh
>ehpaña dioh
>ehpaña dioh
yeah, truly a great writer.

>> No.17249208

>>17247434
It was a massive inspiration for Garcia Marquez and more or less invented the magic realism genre.

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>>17249018

>> No.17249218

>>17245636
>no one mentioned Miguel de Cervantes and Don Kichote
you faglords are useless

>> No.17249221

Borges

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>> No.17249279

>>17249221
what a hot-take, mate

>> No.17249286

>>17249275
have you actually read it? is it worthy or is it just 1300 pages of le quirky randomness?

>> No.17249653

>>17247434
spooky ghosts on a hot abandoned place, basically silent hill, go read it

>> No.17249669

>>17246222
is she really that good? a friend of mine wont shut her fucking mouth about Sor Juana

>> No.17251063

>>17245636
Bump

>> No.17251236

>>17249206
How to spot a pseud

>> No.17251413

>>17245636
Ernesto Sabato - On Heroes and Tombs
Leopoldo Marechal - Adan Buenosayres

>> No.17251467

>>17248826
Redpill me on Isabel Allende. I know Bolaño considered her airplane-tier, but my Mexican neighbors really like her and have recommended her to me a couple times.

>> No.17251691

>>17251467
yeah, you should totally listen to your mexican neighbors instead to following the advice of the best spanish writer from the later half of the last century
>>17249206
based fuck unamuno viva ortega y gasset

>> No.17251931

>>17251467
>Bolaño
he was an incel, we know today that he was rejected by allende so he was bitter until the day he died

>> No.17252223

>>17251691
Who is the best spanish writer today? vargas llosa? what do you think about perez-reverte? is bolano really that good? i havent read much spanish literature from 20th century but i have still managed to hear about every other writer from that century except for Bolano. is he really that good?

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>>17251931
>incel
>was married
>had kids

>> No.17252410

>>17252223
Bolano is truly great. Vargas Llosa is also great, but I would focus more on his older work.

As for contemporary writers Valeria Luiselli, Alejandro Zambra, Alvaro Enrigue come to mind

>> No.17253468

>>17252410
>Alejandro Zambra
>REEEEEEEEEEEE