Seb79, you might find a few of the audio-books from digitalpublishing helpful. This might be a good idea to see if it's at a good level for you and if it's interesting.
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It's not great literature, but it's something you'll probably be able to understand.Ī bit more advanced, Mario Vargas Llosa's books are selling quite well these days, what with his winning the Nobel Peace Prize recently.Īnd this site (of a Peruvian magazine) lets you download as a PDF the first chapter of some recently released books. Just from what I can gather from your question and that your profile says your Spanish level is 'intermediate' I would say that you might have good luck with books aimed at teens. People seem to like the Harry Potter books for this, but I can't comment personally on this as I haven't done it myself. Now, I know that Spanish translations of English books are often rife with errors and also that it really is different reading a book in its original source language, but just for your first foray into reading Spanish novels, you might want to try a book you've already read in English, as this will be much easier. I don't mean to be unhelpful, I'm just trying to figure out what to recommend to you. Also, if you have read any books in Spanish, it would be helpful to know what they are so we can judge what level of vocabulary and other aspects of linguistic complexity you're up for and give you books that will stretch your brain a bit but not be so difficult that you'll give up on them.
February Foreign Film Festival and World Cinema Se.What type of books do you like? If you mention some genres or titles you like in English, people will be able to make better and more relevant recommendations.La última ronda de la modernidad: Los detectives s.El escritor en el bosque de ladrillos.Ignacio Echevarría on the Essential Books in Spani.The Cid and the Libro de buen amor get grandfathered in as exceptions, of course! Borrar I'd trade either the Unamuno or the Carpentier for some Sor Juana poetry, but I'm sticking with the idea of narrative as non-poetry and non-theater. The anonymous Poema de Mío Cid (12th century?) Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor or The Book of Good Love (c. Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla or Mist (1914)įrancisco de Quevedo's La vida del buscón or The Swindler (1626)įernando de Rojas' La Celestina or Celestina (1499) Roberto Arlt's Los siete locos or The Seven Madmen (1929) Taking you up on your challenge/invitation to skip over entire centuries of literature I know little or nothing about, though, I'll propose the following 10 "essential" titles to take us back from 1949 to The Poem of the Cid:Īlejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo or The Kingdom of This World (1949)
Tom, there's a lot to marvel at here, I agree.
Lezama Lima's absence surprised me more than Mujica Láinez's did although I haven't read either of them yet-ha, do you sense a theme here? And even though I'm a big fan of All Souls, I wouldn't have included that Marías at the expense of Your Face Tomorrow that's just nutty! Anyway, hope you had a good haul at the library. That list includes Ángeles Mastreta (twice), Ana María Matute, Diamela Eltit (three times), Carmen Boullosa, Tununa Mercado, Rosa Montero, and Ana María Shua, none of whom I have read. I think Echevarría mentions twice the amount of female authors you give him credit for, though-still no big number, of course, but not all that far removed from the representation you find on the poll of the best 100 Spanish language novels of the last 25 years.
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Scott, the "no women writers from the '90s" thing might seem like a slight however, I'm in no position to recommend a female-authored title from that decade that should have cracked the list.