Spanish literature

What are your must read books originally written in spanish?

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Anything by Bolaño. He's a god

This, but be careful in the order you read them.

What's the preferred order?

Is The Savage Detectives a good starting point?

The Library of Babel
2666
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Dumas Club

yup, I started there.
anyway he's easy to read, you can pick anything

Some stuff like Amulet and The Spirit of Science Fiction work better after reading The Savage Detectives.

Most of his stuff is semi-autobiographical, so yeah, The Savage Detectives is a good starting point, and try to leave 2666 at last.

I thought Reverte was Spanish Stephen King

The Aleph and The Book of Sand by Borges.
The Invention of Morel by Bio Casares.
Hopscotch by Cortazar.

The one no one will mention:
La Regenta

anything by based man Arlt

Ficciones — Borges
Don Quixote — Cervantes
also
and
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En la ardiente oscuridad is also really, really good

Cervantes -- Don Quixote
Borges -- Ficcones and Labyrinths
Gongora -- Soledades
Anonymous - Lazarillo de Tormes

Zafon - Shadow of the Wind

Por mi clase de español, tuvimos que leer El Beso de la Mujer Araña

Puedo confirmar que es basura. No entiendo como dicen que Puig es un autor. Simplemente es un maricon que tenía ganas de violar a los niños.

The best of shakespeare is like his, but worse.

Overrated. Reads like Dostoevski fanfiction. He has a few good moments, though.

t. Mariano Rajoy

Read all you can find of Felix Lope de Vega.

All the Borges you can fit in your rectum
Same for Garcia Marquez.
Alejo Carpentier is a personal favourite
Cortazar
Piglia

Anything by Francisco de Quevedo.
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>tfw you find out Borges was racist

>tfw read 2666 first
Oh well, I loved it anyway

>Galdos
>A
>L
>D
>O
>S

shut the fuck up

Should I read Rayuela before Los detectives salvajes?

Aleixandre, Panero
Nah it's cool
>boquirrita
>mfw

pedro calderón de la barca
tirso de molina
lope vega
quevedo
i dont know how much of their work is translated though

absolutely

mi diario desu

You all should read some Valle

He is. Middlebrow as fuck.

Anyone knows where can I get the rae dictionary for the kindle? I think it's free on amazon but I don't want to connect the kindle to amazon.
All the links I find are dead.

I only read a book by this hack and it was pretty meh. Which are his greatest works?

pedro paramo by juan rulfo

What is she trying to show off?

you're a fag or a virgin for insinuating that she has no ass.

I thought as much. I still want to read Club Dumbass because of the film adaptation.

El llano en llamas - Juan Rulfo
also this

fucking great book

her body, i think

what is the great spanish modernist novel?

I'll give a list and help me find one
Ulysses
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Adan Buenosayres
Remembrance of Things Past
The Man Without Qualities
The Book of Disquiet

What book from Spain would fit these?

Pio Baroja?

"Don Quixote" is without doubt the best Spanish novel ever written, and is arguably the best novel ever written.

Which hack? Umbral? Panero? Aleixandre? Galdos????

Spanish modernismo isn't nearly the same as modernism. The influence of the second in the first is null. I'd say go for something later like Volverás a Región by Benet, maybe La Colmena by Cela or the Umbral ouvre which, despite being a majorly shitty and corny work, is I dare say the earliest and most conspicuous Proust influenced writing in Spain. If you want something more Finneganesque, do Julián Ríos. Honestly I'd say Benet is the only spaniard who looks up to artists like Joyce, Faulkner or Proust before any of his countrymen do.

Also I'm an ignorant ass nigga so I'll thank any user who can add or correct anything

He is just memed into that by spanish leftys. He is actually very good but yeah he focuses mostly on historic fiction. Read The Fencing Master. It is brilliant.

Nigga I'm not braggin but I am more facha than your daddy sadly. And Pérez is utter shit, as well as a recognized plagiarist.
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So many plebs in this thread.
Read:

Fortunata y Jacinta, Perez Galdós
El Criticón, Gracián
Novelas Ejemplares, Cervantes
La vida es sueño, Calderón

He will be studied by your children in castellano

First of all it's unlikely that I raise children
Also spanish basic education and literary studies are shit

>Not knowing Laiseca
lmao

I meant Umbral

Can confirm, even though Julius Caesar is copyright free, it is still cunty to copy without crediting.

Well I don't consider him a great author and I think your impression of him will vary with your general experience as a reader. When I read Mortal y Rosa for the first time shit was really impressing for me, but months later, after reading more authors and rereading him I realized about all of the trickery he used as a mask for a weak novelist. I'd say Mortal y Rosa is a major, somewhat successful display of all the prestidigitaciones and fireworks you can find in the columnas or other works. Go for it. It fails as a novel and is generally corny, but still has some powerful and witty images and I think it was overall a useful read for me.