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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