Latinoamerican literature general

[Anonymous No.22035195]

I'm almost done with this old lit chart for latinoamerican literature, it's been a pretty good ride so far. What else would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.22035209]

>>22035195
Donoso barely counts as latin american lit it was just 2008 /b/ edgy shit.

[Anonymous No.22035252]

It's like 30 different authors, just pick whichever you liked.
I'm surprised Arlt got in there, I can't even imagine what his work would look like translated. It's like translating a Wu Tang song for a country that knows nothing about the US.

I'm surprised Piglia isn't in there, maybe they didn't want argentina to be over represented. Or maybe he was a bit too lefty for their criteria, can't blame them if you're doing a chart for 4chan. Same with Osvaldo Bayer. Maybe nothing of them got translated.

Like 5 years ago they started translating Cesar Aria to english, he even got a couple appearances in The New Yorker. I have no clue what they chose, I don't even know what criteria you'd apply to pick his best works, they all read similar in chaos but very different in content and tone (as different as you can make three dozen novels or so).

Levrero got a big promotion after he died a couple years ago, He's like a mixture of Raymond Chandler and Burroughs. A fun read.

[Anonymous No.22035268]

Me rehuso a escribir en inglés. Lean a Enrique Medina, manga de traga leches.

[Anonymous No.22035282]

>>22035268
Why are you here then?
Which ones? Perros de la Noche and Gatica? Or are those just the ones that got more promotion even when they were inferior? Did he write anything in english when he lived in the US for the anglo mascapitos?

[Anonymous No.22035285]

I have never seen Castaneda being mentioned on lit

[Anonymous No.22035301]

I'm surprised Isabel Allende isn't in that list. I can see people compalining that she writes chick lit or some retarded preventive take like that, but she is on the level of most people in that list.

better than anything mentioned here >>22035252

[Anonymous No.22035305]

>>22035282
>Why are you here then?
Porque hay todo un sitio para escribir en inglés, no voy a hacerlo en el único rincón en el se puede hablar sobre literatura de esa parte del mundo.
>Which ones?
Las Tumbas, Striptease y Las Muecas del Miedo.
>Did he write anything in english when he lived in the US for the anglo mascapitos?
A diferencia de Puig, Medina nunca escribió nada en inglés.

[Anonymous No.22035313]

>>22035285
For good reason. He was a peruvian piece of shit that larped as a mexican mystic to get pussy. Nice con but fuck off

[Anonymous No.22035315]

>>22035301
I hope you're trolling, Allende is garbage. Bolaño also hated her and called her a shit writer.

[Anonymous No.22035319]

>>22035313
I don't like him either, he is too schizo for me, just mentioning it

[Anonymous No.22035324]

>>22035305
nunca nos van a entrar dolares si nos negamos a vender la cola cada tanto
I'll keep an eye open for him, I found out I had a copy of Los Casos del Comisario Croce that I must have stolen from my mom at some point so I'm not going out of my way to get new stuff.

[Anonymous No.22035332]

My Spanish teacher used to read us short stories in class every now and then. sadly i don't remember the names of most of them. but i remember one was about a guy in Mexico who was looking for a job to help his parents, and his dad had a stray cat he really liked and one day the guy came home really pissed and scares the cat away and the cat never returns making the dad sad. does anyone know what it could be?
>>22035301
I've only ever heard bad things about her, but maybe I'll give her a chance. Also, the new editions of her books are the worst things I've seen, they should have kept the drawings instead. makes it look a lot more like chick lit than it would otherwise
>>22035313
will larping as a Mexican mystic get me pussy? I've never heard of that dating strategy

[Anonymous No.22035348]

>>22035332
>will larping as a Mexican mystic get me pussy? I've never heard of that dating strategy
mexican in particular? no clue. But larping as a mystic works pretty well sadly. I had a neighbour who did that and it was really weird how much pussy someone that registered as disgusting at every level got, and I was into Kerouac at the time so it's not as if I was much more presentable.

[Anonymous No.22035488]

>>22035195
Everything paid by the party

[Anonymous No.22035550]

>>22035195
Are most of those XX century commies?
Also, no Brazilians?

[Anonymous No.22035734]

>>22035195
Could never get into some of these books. They just struck me as gay. I guess latin american literature is just not my cup of tea.
Or maybe I was just too contrarian to actually read them.
The one book I earnestly gave a try sucked fucking ass. Very boring.

[Anonymous No.22035816]

>>22035252
I’m pretty sure I’m the anon (or one of the few) who recommended it for this list. I mean, I did recommend that book for someone creating a similar list months ago. I do confess Arlt is going to be troublesome for non Spanish speakers.

OP, Manuel Scorza’s Redoble por Rancas is a solid and overlooked read. Peruvian lit.

[Anonymous No.22035851]

>>22035816
Arlt is an absolute beast, great stuff, revolutionary for his time and very unique even to this day. I just wonder what the fuck the translator did, and I feel very sorry for him in any case.

[Anonymous No.22035854]

>>22035851
Lmaooooo

[Anonymous No.22035861]

>>22035195
the other sabato book about tombs

[Anonymous No.22035864]

>>22035861
It’s a trilogy, retard

[Anonymous No.22035915]

>>22035195
Del Campo's Fausto, any Macedonio Fernández, Runas and Los Pichiciegos by Fogwill

[Anonymous No.22036893]

>>22035195
I, The Supreme
Mister President
Feast of the Goat
Those are 3 novels that showcase the strenght of hispanic literature and it's more prevalent theme: political power personified.
Just don't fall for the Dictator Novel meme. Everything said here was already said about Napoleon in the French letters.

[Anonymous No.22037076]

>>22035195
This is a weird list. When was it done? I think I might have contributed to it, or some other one. I should permanently leave…

[Anonymous No.22038291]

Luna de Plutón.

[Anonymous No.22038308]

>>22035915
>Del Campo's Fausto
>le funny gauchos
Ok, Zoilo.

[Anonymous No.22038599]

>>22038308
Weird gaucho coming through.

[Anonymous No.22038699]

>>22035195
I always ser the desth of artemio cruz in these lists but the RAE gave la región más transparente a special edition instead. Which one would you say is better?

[Anonymous No.22038716]

>>22038699
This editon. It looks pretty nice but it's hard to find
Also which one should i start with to get into carlos fuentes

[Anonymous No.22039010]

>>22038716
None, Carlos Fuentes sucks

[Anonymous No.22039238]

>>22038291
People are recomending grown up books, please keep your hungry hungry caterpillar out of this.

[Anonymous No.22039380]

>>22035861
>>22035864
that 'trilogy' sucks, out of the three only The Tunnel is a good novel, even said by Sabato himself.
>inb4 informe sobre ciegos
That's exactly the reason why that part was constantly published by itself

[Anonymous No.22039414]

>>22038699
The Death of Artemio Cruz is miles better. Way more inteligent structure (obviusly experimental / fragmentary) and also just better cohesion as a overrall story.

Where the Air is Clear is good (if you have read Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos then you will be familiar with this, as it's just the mexican version of "the modernist city novel"), but it just feels all over the place at times, and not in a good way. There's also a lot of monologues that intend to be somewhat poetic or philosophical but they just fail at it and come across as rambling.

[Anonymous No.22040285]

bump

[Anonymous No.22040314]

>>22035195
Cortázar’s stories are great, imo much better than hopscotch. I think in English there’s a bunch of selected ones under the name Blow-Up

[Anonymous No.22040322]

>>22035195
La Mala Hora and Doce Cuentos Peregrinos are good Gabriel García Márquez