Spanish literature

Read Volverás a Región if you like Faulkner

I liked Abel Sanchez from him. You could say that the theme is envy.
Also El arbol de la ciencia by Pio Baroja. It has a slow start it is a great depection of the time it was written.
Also you may like to read stuff from the generation of 98, a group of authors that was given that name because of the shared themes.

I'm spanish myself

Niebla is great

If you're staying on the Peninsula, get into portuguese lit too. Jose Saramago and Fernando Pessoa are the main ones to check out.

Get into latin american too. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo started magical realism. Mario Vargas Llosa is better than Gabo. Borges and Cortazar round out South America. I'm a sucker for Bolaño's poetry, don't know his novels. For the love of god don't real paulo coelho. mexico has the strongest activist/essayistic tradition, descendents from poniatowska and paz.

I'll be monitoring this thread

>spanish thread without magic realism/cervantes wank
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>>8427228
>Get into latin american too.

Seconded. Try to stay away from from magical realism with the exception of Pedro Paramo and other novels that started the movement. Also, try to look into Ricardo Piglia, Macedonio Fernandez, Borges, and the intertwining connections between the three.

>>8427363
He should check some Garcia Marquez and Cortazar (only Rayuela, the rest is gimmicky shit).

Also, read Sabato, Arlt, Bolaño, and some chilean poets like based Huidobro.

>>8427383
Garcia Marquez' later stuff is garbage imo, and I think Cortazar has some redeemable short stories.

>Huidobro

Altazor is my jam

>>8427396
That's why i said (((some))) Garcia Marquez.
About Cortazar, half of Bestiario is great, and almost every story on All Fires The Fire is above-average.

Huidobro is a fucking madman.
Honestly, while Chile doesn't have a lot of great prose writers, they have the greatest poets (Neruda, Huidobro, De Rokha, Parra, Lihn, Zurita, etc).

Thanks, I'll chek those books out.