Spanish Literature Recommendations?

>>9707832

Don Quixote (1605)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Like Water for Chocolate (1989)
Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) (Spanglish)
The Savage Detectives (1998)
2666 (2004)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) (contains Spanglish)

I literally don't know what else to recommend in terms of novels.

Read anything and everything by Augusto Monterroso.

If you want poetry, the Machados and Lorca are excellent options.

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Hey spalit, recently i adquired this book. What am i in?

>>9707832
Do you mean specifically from Spain or any literature written in Spanish?

I don't think Cervantes ever said that.

>>9707832
Mexicanfag here.

Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and El llano en llamas.

Forget about Like Water for Chocolate.

>>9707944
Anything written in Spanish. I read Bendíceme, Ultima for a Spanish lit class and found it boring as fuck. The Chicano literature hasn't really done it for me, but that isn't to say there is not good Chicano lit out there. The common motifs seem to be living in poverty, competition, loss. It just doesn't really make me think.

>>9707992
>Forget about Like Water for Chocolate.
Lol, I remember being confused about the title of that book, thought it was "Eat water for chocolate" for a while.

I like short stories, Llano en Llamas looks like something I'd enjoy

>>9708020
Well, since I'm not sure what kind of literature you like, I'll just drop some big names.

Some novels from Spain:
El lazarillo (anonymous author)
Don Quijote (Cervantes)
La Regenta (Clarín)
Niebla (Unamuno)
El árbol de la ciencia (Baroja)
Sonata de primavera/estío/otoño/invierno (Valle-Inclán)
La familia de Pascual Duarte and La Colmena (Cela)

Some novels from LatAm:
Basically anything by Márquez
Anything by Vargas Llosa
Los Detectives Salvajes, 2666 (Bolaño)
El túnel (Sabato) His other novels are even better but you have to read them chronologically
Pedro Páramo (Rulfo)
La muerte de Artemio Cruz (Fuentes)

Also, every short story collection by Borges and Cortázar

I'd say don't read the Spaniards until you have a better grasp of Spanish, since some of them use old Spanish and others are heavily philosophical so you might drift off if you don't get the language.

Probably Márquez, Llosa and Bolaño are good places to start, since they write great stuff but the prose is fairly simple and clear. Maybe Cortazar too, but his short stories, since Rayuela is quite complicated

>>9707885
>Don Quixote (1605)
Is this actually good? I always wondered if it was a meme. We watched a film for it in our classes in high school. It wasn't very good; I may have written Don Quixote off as a meme for that. I'mk willing to give it a read though.

>>9707899
>Read anything and everything by Augusto Monterroso.
>If you want poetry, the Machados and Lorca are excellent options.
Poetry is hit or miss for me. I can't read Poe, for instance, too abstract. I'm loosely a rhyme and meter snob for poetry, because that is the primary art of it to me.

>>9707903
Léelo y nos lo cuentas.