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We share favourite writers, works and everything that does make it so special.

>> No.5625726 [DELETED] 
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>>5625713
>this is the best author in Latin America

Well, fellas, it looks like this thread is over.

>> No.5625727
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One Hundred Years of Solitude was amazing

>> No.5625730

>>5625727
is this a joke?

>> No.5625742

>>5625727
I haven't read much by García Marquez. I remember that I disliked what he said when he won the Nobel Prize. He showed such hatred for europeans. I much prefer Vargas Llosa.

>> No.5625743

>>5625730
Why do you need to ask? Is it autism?

>> No.5625748

>>5625743
I guess it is.

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>>5625742
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>> No.5625780

I just got done reading "The Kingdom of this World" by Alejo Carpentier last month. I can't really compare it to the original, but the English translation is very beautifully rendered. It's like extended prose poetry. The narrative is very fragmented, sometimes confusingly so, and it helps to have a little background knowledge of Cuban/ Haitian history. Henri Christophe is never much of a character as he is this idea of a leader, then he's drowned out by revolution after revolution. The parts about Pauline Bonaparte and her voodoo priest may be the best parts. If you like Marquez and Borges, Carpentier's a big precursor to both.

>> No.5625782

So something that has always interested me is when you anglo speaking anons read someone like Borges. How do you enjoy him? I mean certainly his style is beautiful but his short stories related with argentinian literature and culture, which are excellent if you understand them, do need quite a knowledge that few anglo speaking people have. Also, what do you think about his poetry and his essays.

>> No.5625789

>>5625780
Yes i very much like Carpentier, his style is so precise and he uses language in such a perfect way. Carlos Fuentes is a similar autor but he is very latinoamerican so in traduction you will need quite a knowledge.

>> No.5625830

>>5625780
>>5625789
I have a compilation from when he had a film column in some diary and his opinions about that medium are pretty pleb
>Things used to be so better back then
>There are no stars like Greta Garbo
>Trully the Lumier brothers were the masters of the medium
>I miss the star system
It's like someone's grandpa complaining about how things aren't like they used to be. I wouldn't expect him to necesarily apreciate every medium and back then you didn't get international stuff so easily if at all, I'm not judging all of his work for that, but he really did a hack job there.

>> No.5625902

>>5625830
I wasn't aware of that. Interesting. Which other writers have you read?

>> No.5625942

>>5625726
It's quite interesting because he is the only writer of the latinamerican boom who did embrace liberalism.

>> No.5625985

>>5625902
Writing about cinema? Only Almendros, and he's a special case since he was a part of history. Dias de una Cámara is great.

>> No.5626004

>>5625782
My favorite Borges story is Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, it's really interesting

>> No.5626080

>>5626004
That's a very imaginative work and very Borgian. The last days I have been reading and studying a short story from the Aleph collection called "Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz", which is Borges reconciliation with an Argentinian literary classic called Martín Fierro. It's fantastic.

>> No.5626126

>>5626004
Last monday i read "el hacedor" it felt like an earthquake.

>> No.5626137

>>5625713
Oh man. I've been on a huge Latin American boom kick recently. I've The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, a ton of shit by Jorge Luis Borges, and I'm in the middle of reading Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar. I like Borges best, I think.

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>>5626080
Borgesian tho

>> No.5627882

>>5625726
haha I missed you man, good times

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Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets
towards your oceanic eyes.

There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames,
its arms turning like a drowning man's.

I send out red signals across your absent eyes
that smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.

You keep only darkness, my distant female,
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.

Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad nets
to that sea that is thrashed by your oceanic eyes.

The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.

The night gallops on its shadowy mare
shedding blue tassels over the land.

>> No.5629056

junot diaz
he's the only latin writer I've read