I'm learning Spanish. What's some essential Spanish-language literature, aside from the big names -- de Vega, Cervantes...

I'm learning Spanish. What's some essential Spanish-language literature, aside from the big names -- de Vega, Cervantes, Marquez, Neruda, etc? I'm looking for the Spanish-language equivalent of Hemingway or something. How long did it take you to read another language fluently?

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What does the blue signify?

Countries/places where the majority language is spanish but it's not the official language is what I'm guessing

How about Jorge Luis Borges?

Hemingway’s style is an extremely American fenomenon. I would tell you to read the following:
Carlos Fuentes - Aura
Cortázar - Short Stories
Borges - everything
Francisco de Quevedo - poems
Nicolás Gómez Dávila - Escolios
Alejandra Pizarnik - poems
José Lezama Lima - Paradiso

I think this is the top tier list. And let me remind you that Neruda is terrible.

Platero y yo

Extremely lame and US tier. Cringe.

Different local names for the Spanish language itself. Blue uses "Español" (literally "Spanish") and Red uses "Castellano" (literally "Castillian")

The map is wrong then. I've never met an Colombian that uses "castellano" instead of "español".

Roberto Bolaño

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What about Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo ?

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
The Lightning in August by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
The Vertical Journey by Enrique Vila-Matas
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
2666 by Robert Bolaño
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar

The equivalent to Hemingway would be Pío Baroja.

Hopscotch is boring

Why Spanish?

We use it all the time, especially older people. Globalisation did a number on our already fictional national identities
t. colomboan

Depends on the age, I suppose. I have fond memories about it in my younger years.

gonna post some underrated spanish kino

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well mem'd, user.

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Do you think it gets better with age?

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The younger and less cynical you are, the better it gets.

Shitposting aside this is pretty comfy and funny

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Read my boy José Donoso.

try with Roberto Arlt

Lots of spanish speakers around, learned the basics in school.

Kek
No this shit

Hey user I wanna read Donoso. I already have obscene bird of night but I don't think I should start with that one. What do you recommend?

El Lugar Sin Límites is very good and waaay easier than The obscene bird of the night.
But my suggestion is to start with The obscene bird, regardless. There is no way to be fully prepared for this book.

this bad boi

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>Quevedo and not Gongora

Pie corto detected

You're wrong.

t. Spaniard

Spanish is a fucking ugly language everything sounds retarded

>Gongora
A total meme full of floritures.

rude

Cortazar, Borges, Sábato, Onetti, Arlt, Horacio Quiroga
take the rioplatense pill

That's only true for spic accent. Iberian spanish sounds nice.