What are the best books set in Spain?

>>9460879
Pedro Paramo

>>9460879
The grand inquisitor

>>9460879
Don Quixote, Lazarillo de Tormes, The Sun Also Rises, Cantar de Mio Cid.

Sun also Rises is good for Spain from a foreigners perspective

>>9460925
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.

>>9461502
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)

>>9460879
Chibes's On The Edge

>>9461722
I liked it. It's what got me back into wanting to write, and in turn, into /lit/. How come you didn't enjoy it?

>>9460879
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

>>9460879
Merimee's Carmen

Any book written by a spanish author.

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

>>9461478
>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.

>>9463545
your life is a boring Soap Opera

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>>9462108
Is it any good? The only catalan lit I've read is Espriu

>>9461772
This, alternate title "Spain a Shit and Needs to be put out of its Misery"

>>9460879
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

>>9461999
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

>>9464167
All Art Is Propaganda

>>9463545
How is Life not just a boring Soap Opera as an existence.

>>9461502
b8

>>9464560
That doesn't mean I write a book about it.

>>9460879
Mi diario desu.

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

>>9460879
Volverás a Región
>>9460937
>Cantar de Mio Cid
Cool as a piece of history and shit, but zero literary interest desu

>>9464632
>Fundational work of the Spanish language
>zero literary interest

>>9464743
As a piece of literary history, for sure. But lame as fuck if we talk about literary aesthetics.