Is the best literature of the 20th century written in Spanish?

>Is the best literature of the 20th century written in Spanish?

No

/thread

>>7679551
Why?

>>7679559
because Céline and Proust

>>7679559
because Bernhard and Hesse and Kafka and Mann and Musil and Schmidt and Zweig

>>7679539
No. The first half belonged to Ireland and France, while the latter half has been dominated by the United States.

>Llosa
That guy is awful

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>>7679879
>Celine
>best prose

>>7679559
because Burgess and Faulkner and Gaddis and Lowry and Joyce and Nabkov and O'Brien and Woolf

>>7679559
because Akutagawa and Endo and Kawabata and Mishima and Oe and Soseki and Tanizaki

>>7679915
Better than Proust pêh

>>7679915
the original post actually says best literature

>>7679915
>Best Literature = Best Prose

I bet you smoke clove cigarettes and wear pants so tight you will never conceive a child if you werent a faggot

>>7679559
because Bulgakov and Grossman and Pasternak and Platonov and Nabokov and Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn

>>7679933
I think this one here is the winner.

>>7679916
And Gass and Hawkes and McElroy and Breton and Schmidt and Rios.

>>7679559
because Hermans, Mulisch, Boon and Claus

>>7679559
Because James and Hawkes and Gaddis and Burroughs and McElroy and Vollmann and Dick and Barthelme and Gaddis and Wallace and Pound and Crane and Ashberry.

>>7679936
What about Pilniak?

>>7679539
Because Green and Meyer and Flynn and Franzen

>>7679915
Pourquoi est ce que tu dis ca?

>>7679539
sí

>>7679879
>>7679900
>>7679933
>>7679943
>>7679947
>>7679920

because [insert 20th century authors who share your nationality here]

>>7679963
>believing real japs post outside of /int/ or /a/ or /gif/

>>7679963
>implying those aren't all the same poster
>reading deeply into memeposting

>>7679928
My apologies; i misread it.

>>7679931
Nah brah i smoked Marlboro, then Chesterfield then quit.

Though your post is as edgy as muh salty french Bukowski so good going you massive fucking faggot

>>7679900
why do people always forget about Grass?

>>7680076
>implying he was forgotten
>implying he wasn't intentionally omitted

>>7679539
Didn't even include Cortázar, one of my personal faves

>>7680149
poor Günther, he's one of my favorites. Probably the first auther I studied intensively.

>>7680199
m8 im just memeing, i haven't even read him and i wasn't the one who made the list

i have him on my somewhat distant to read list, but yeah, he doesn't get much love here

is tin drum the best way to start or should i go for somethign else?

>>7680254
nah, Tin Drum is the way to go, followed up by Katz und Maus. You can read Hundejahre afterwards in order to complete the Danzig trilogy, but it's definitely the worst out of the three.

Then, if you liked the characters and settings out of those three, read Im Krebsgang, if not, go straight to Der Butt, his second great novel.

But whatever you do, do not read too much Grass at once, I read all of them after each other with only a couple of books inbetween, and was tired of his writing by the end of the Butt, even though it's a good book.

>>7680275
in what context did you study him? literature degree? are you german?

thanks for the flowchart <3

>>7680275
or just read his autobiography first and see what interests you.

>>7680280
I'm German and study literature: had to read the two novellas (Katz und Maus/Krebsgang) for my studies, liked them, then read the rest.

>>7679539
I'd say it's some of the best, and only of the second half of the 20th century (look up the publication dates of Ficciones, El túnel, Rayuela, Cien años de soledad, Pedro Páramo, Paradiso, etc. They are all post-war novels).

>>7680313
>Ficciones
>novel

>>7679916
and Pynchon

>>7680464

That was just a slip, I know it's a short story collection. But you know what I meant, you cheeky cunt.

>>7679914
Found the virgin

Cortazar where?

>>7680509
Found the 9gagger

>>7679559
because reasons

>>7680511
so under-appreciated on this board. Rayuela is one of my all time favorite books

>>7680665
everything but English literature, Kafka and Camus is under-appreciated on this board.

>>7680665
He's not under-appreciated, you massive faggot

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>>7679920
this.

>>7679539
>Is the best literature of the 20th century written in Spanish?
English: Joyce, Becket, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Pynchon, every major poet from yeats to elliot
Spanish: Borges and a few cucks

>>7679920
Not one of those writers is first rate. Don't shill weebshit here

>>7680930
you've read exactly zero of them besides mishima dont even lie

>>7680995
Soseki and Oe are shilled here all the time. In fact, Soseki is more famous than Mishima, weeb. Take your oriental platitudefests elsewhere.

>>7680275

German literature student . I have never touched anything by Grass, mostly because of an unepxlainable association à la "sad, slightly depressed uncle".
Suggest something he wrote and I will read it during the next few months.
Unless it's a telephone directory or something like that. Not falling for that one again.

>>7681880
I guess Katz and Maus is fit to give you a first impression, and you can easily read it in a day.
The association you have really is unexplainable, his work is more funny than said, political in a very-non subtle way and kinda gross at times.

>>7681040
So you admit to not having read any of them. Great thanks for proving me right.

>>7682359
This variety of post is probably the most autistic kind you see on 4chan

>>7682620
Still no indication you read anything beyond 4chan posts.

>>7679539
>Gar-memer-cía Márqu-meme-ez
>good

>>7682768
Dude how is the autism going?

>>7682795
It's with me going to your moms house to fuck her right now, kid.

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>>7682818

>>7682824
I was licking your mom a little bit like that last night, kid.

>>7682827
:( my mom is dead

>>7682620
He's a weeb, what did you expect?

>>7682620
He's still right, though.

>>7679539
It makes sense that there's many great Spanish writers, since it's the second most spoken language in the world, covers the most landscape as a first language (spanning 3 continents and multiple different cultures).

>>7679920
>Be Oe
>Write about downy kid and the same two themes all the time

>>7679559
Because Barreto, Amado, Veríssimo, Andrade, Andrade, Andrade, do Rio, Lispector, Bandeira, Rosa, Ramos, Fonseca e Sabino.

>>7682896
actually those are just the only ones that get translated cause westerners only want to read about his downy kid lol

>>7680513
found the redditeeer

>>7682836
I know, bitch.

>>7679915
you just know this guy reads translations

>>7682917
Super Mario is (was :c) frigging awesome

funny enough but it's actually norwegian

>>7680927
>I've only read some Borges in translation and therefore I have read all 20th century literature in Spanish

Literally kill urself my man

>>7679933
Some of my favorite hockey players