Halie
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Post by Halie on Apr 29, 2009 20:16:19 GMT -5
I searched but could not find a similar thread.
Can anyone suggest some of their favorite Spanish and/or Latin American literature? I know my mom has some Marquez sitting around somewhere, but I am curious as to what some of your contemporary favorites are.
I do not speak Spanish very well, so it'd have to be in translation. It's a shame, really -- my grandmother is from Spain!
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Post by Hanna on Apr 30, 2009 3:13:11 GMT -5
I love Jose Marti, the Cuban poet, so I would recommend him highly. Plus, starting to read poetry in Spanish if you're not that fluent might be an easy way to begin? I also enjoyed Maria Luisa Bombal's La Amortajada (not quite sure of the spelling there), because it tells the story through the recently dead main character, which was kind of a cool, unusual way to do it. And I guess it's hard to avoid Isabel Allende?  |
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Post by Dominique on Apr 30, 2009 5:11:43 GMT -5
And I guess it's hard to avoid Isabel Allende? Oh yes! I've only read The House of Spirits by her but it was wonderful! It reminded me a lot of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's style too, very beautiful writing. |
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Apr 30, 2009 8:46:52 GMT -5
Thank you for all of these great suggestions! I will look into them. Allende wrote Zorro, right?
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Paige
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Post by Paige on Apr 30, 2009 21:19:51 GMT -5
I'm in a Latino Lit class this semester, and we've read Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street and Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I really enjoyed both of them. We've also read a ton of short stories, poems, plays, and essays from a book called Latino Boom. It also has some history/background info in it. I've enjoyed reading the majority of the book, so I'd recommend it to anyone interested in Latino Lit.
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Sept 21, 2009 23:18:42 GMT -5
I know I was the one who originally started this thread, but I want to recommend "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel, which I just finished. It takes place in Mexico and is so wonderful. It's a little bit like "Chocolat", in that it combines food and magic in a way that is completely believable, as opposed to overt fantasy like Harry Potter or Twilight.
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lindsay
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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Sept 24, 2009 10:00:38 GMT -5
I love Like Water for Chocolate. Magic realism and food all mixed into one great novel.
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