25 September 2007

Spanish Lit

The Guardian is going on a Spanish literature tour for the next month (India and Pakistan were last month). Read other people's recommendations for the best in Spanish fiction, drama, or poetry, or make your own reading suggestions.

 

So far:

 

Javier Cercas's Soldiers of Salamis

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

Arturo Pérez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste; Territorio Comanche

Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla (Mist); La tia Tula

Carmen Martin Gaite's The Back Room; Caperucita Roja (modern day version of Little Red Riding Hood)

Javier Marias: A Heart So White; Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me; Todas las Almas (All Souls); Dark Back of Time

Juan Marse: Lizard Tails; Ultimas tardes con Teresa; Si te dicen que caí; El amante biligüe; El Embrujo de Shangai

Federico García Lorca: Blood Wedding; The House of Bernarda Alba; 'El Romancero Gitano'; Yerma

Camilo José Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte; La Colmena

Ramon Llull's The Book of Blanquerna

Ramon J Sender's Requiem for a Spanish Peasant; Nancy's Thesis

Benito Perez Galdos's Torquemada; Jacinta and Fortunata

Antonio Gala's Pasion Turca

Napoleon Ponce de Leon's Five Black Ships

Manuel Pimentel Silves' El Librero del Atlantida

Miguel Ruiz Trigueros' La Noche de Arcilla

Carloz Ruiz Zafon's The shadow of the wind [bleah]

Calderon de la Barca's La vida es sueno (Life is a Dream)

Juan José Millas' El desorden de tu nombre; El orden alfabético; Dos mujeres en Praga

Armando Lopez Salinas' The Mine Rafael

Sanchez Ferlosio's Alfanhui

Emilia Pardo Bazan's Los Pasos de Ulloa

Juan Ramon Jimenez's Platero and I

Luis de Castresana's The Other Tree of Guernica

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's The 'Los gozos y las sombras' trilogy

Leopoldo Alas' La Regenta

Francisco Umbral's Trilogia de Madrid

Juan Goytisolo's Count Julian (a 'hate-letter to Spain written in a stream of consciousness.')

Miguel Delibes' The Path; Los Santos Inocentes (The Holy Innocents); Cinco Horas con Mario; The Heretic

Ramón María del Valle Inclan's Lights of Bohemia

Antonio Munoz Molina's Sepharad; El jinete polaco; Plenilunio

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's 'Carvalho' series

Luis Sepulveda's Mundo del fin del mundo (The World at the End of the World); Un viejo que leía novelas de amor (The Old Man Who Read Love Stories)

poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

poetry of Antonio Machado

Benardo Atxaga's Obabakoak; Esos Cielos

Joan Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc

Gabriel Aresti's Harri eta Herri

Luis Landero's Juegos de la Edad Tardía

Almudena Grandes Los Aires Dificiles

Enrique Vila Matas' Bartleby & Co

Rafael Reig's Blood in the Saddle

José Carlos Llop's El mensajero de Argel; La cámara de ámbar; La oración de Mr. Hyde

 

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