If I recall well, Marquez said he had a written block and after reading Pedro Paramo, wrote 100 years. Very good book indeed, somehow remind me of Turn of the Shrew or Benito Cereno.
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If I recall well, Marquez said he had a written block and after reading Pedro Paramo, wrote 100 years. Very good book indeed, somehow remind me of Turn of the Shrew or Benito Cereno.
I just found this site by “mistake” and I am overly amazed how much information and tools Ive found so far and I am falling in love with it at first sight, but I am wondered about the lack of Spanish, south Americans and Mexican writers.
I am Mexican but I live so close to the border that I am almost living under the north American reading mostly international writers (King, Lovecraft, Poe, etc , etc). But I haven’t heard of any Spanish speaking writer so far, does anyone hear have ever read someone like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Perez-Reverte, Juan Rulfo or similar?
other than Cervantes, Marquez, and a smattering of Borges. But I have recently read a few novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte. They are mostly literary mystery novels such as The Club Dumas. I wondered what others who have read him in Spanish think of him. I suppose he would be classed as a post modern. In any event, I find his writing much more interesting than Roth's or Delilo's.
I was reading the Las Aventuras del Capitan Alatriste saga and let me say its one of the most wonderful things Ive ever read in spanish, it perfectly mimics the speaking of the era and totally charms you with the description of historical events narrated in the stories, a must read and an instant classic from my point of view. Perez-Reverte is one of the most enlightened writers I have found.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfloyd
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Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I STRONGLY advice you to read him. Let me put it this way; I consider him to be the best prose narrator in spanish language after Borges (and of course Cervantes). He has two excelent novels: Pedro Páramo and El llano en llamas. I have a great regard of him because he has a simlpe prose. He is the oposite of a baroque novelist.
I don't have enough knowledge about spanish literature to say how much it can be compared to other great literatures, such as the english one, but a work like Cervantes' "Don Quixote" - that I'm currently reading - is powerful enough to allow comparisons with literature's supremes geniuses' works.
I have not finished DQ 2nd book, but I must tell it's the work as a whole is so great I don't believe it would be unfair saying its reputation as the greatest novel ever written is based on nothing.
And what about poets like Neruda, Salinas or Lorca? And then you have Calderon de la Barca e G.G. Marquez - both authors I haven't read, I must admit - who are granted great reputation, as well.
I recommend "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by G. G. Marquez".