What are the best books set in Spain?

What are the best books set in Spain?

Pedro Paramo

The grand inquisitor

Don Quixote, Lazarillo de Tormes, The Sun Also Rises, Cantar de Mio Cid.

Sun also Rises is good for Spain from a foreigners perspective

not set in spain, but god tier book

The Alchemist. Although a good part of it is in North Africa, not Spain, it starts and ends there, and the boy is from Spain.

The Recognitions

In English 3 George Borrow titles- The Bible in Spain (about a 19th c Protestant Bible smuggler), The Gypsies in Spain, The Zincali.

yeh but its a fuckin terrible book desu

for whom the bell tolls

Not exactly, but Savage Detectives' best part is mostly in Spain (but around the rest of Europe, Middle East and Africa as well)

Chibes's On The Edge

I liked it. It's what got me back into wanting to write, and in turn, into Veeky Forums. How come you didn't enjoy it?

If you like short stories, a lot of Somerset Maugham's work is set in Andalusia

Homage to Catalonia of course

For Whom the Bell Tolls and many Hemingway stories

The Sun Also Rises

La plaça del diamant

Merimee's Carmen

Any book written by a spanish author.

Pro-tip: ignore hemmingway, he is shit, like every other anglo writer.

>Sun also Rises is good
How is that Book not just a boring Soap Opera as a novel.

The Stone Raft, but it's more Iberian.

Just read Spanish authors from the XVII-XX century. They spent their lifes narrating how was Spain and its very very different people.

your life is a boring Soap Opera

(you)

Is it any good? The only catalan lit I've read is Espriu

This, alternate title "Spain a Shit and Needs to be put out of its Misery"

Part of Bataille's Story of the Eye and Blue of Noon >Implying Barcelona is Spain

La Pista de Hielo by Bolaño. Beautiful little book set in small town Spain.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba.

Luces de Bohemia

The blind sunflowers

Anything by:
Valle-Inclán
Delibes
Baroja
Unamuno
Galdós
Azorín

Seconded.

Only thing is every now and then Orwell breaks off from the narration to explain in great length the socio-political background, which I find draggy, preachy and boring. The book treads a fine line between art and propaganda.

Torbe's scratch n' sniff

All Art Is Propaganda

How is Life not just a boring Soap Opera as an existence.

b8

That doesn't mean I write a book about it.

Mi diario desu.

whats the best book set in 1950+ spain involving a cute girl i can fantasize about

Volverás a Región
>Cantar de Mio Cid
Cool as a piece of history and shit, but zero literary interest desu

>Fundational work of the Spanish language
>zero literary interest

As a piece of literary history, for sure. But lame as fuck if we talk about literary aesthetics.