Spanish literature

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

Admittedly, I'd never heard of him... but I'll certainly be on the lookout for him.

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Juan Rulfo
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".