Other /latam/ reccomendations anons? I really loved this one, currently reading Bomarzo by Lainez as well
I haven't read much LatAm stuff, like at all, but I have read picrel and I can report that it is very good. It's nonfiction of course.
Read any borges? His short stories range from “wtf did I just read” to “wow this guy is a fucking genius!” and proceed to re-read the story again immediately
>>25172310There was this cool Argentinian guy called Antonio Di Benedetto. He's only written a few novels but they're all very good. He's kind of like Bernhard in a way, he likes borderline autistic characters.
>>25172516Noted
>>25172310From Fuentes also Cumpleaños and Terra nostra are good. Cumpleaños is a novella about an infinite, illusory house where resurrections occur daily. Its atmosphere is reminiscent of Lynch's films. To truly appreciate it, however, one needs a bit of knowledge of European history, particularly medieval history.For Terra nostra I simply put text from wiki:"Terra Nostra, perhaps Fuentes' most ambitious novel, is a "massive, Byzantine work" that tells the story of all Hispanic civilization.[2] Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans. Like The Death of Artemio Cruz, the novel also draws heavily on cinematic techniques.[2]Terra Nostra is a work in the modernist literary tradition. It has been called a "metafictional" as well as a "metahistorical" novel, and some critics have argued that it is a postmodern novel. It has also been called a reinvention of baroque literature.[3]The novel's structure parallels the architecture of El Escorial in many ways. Fuentes himself referred to the parallels in an interview published in 1978; "Terra Nostra is this: it is a second nature. In many senses: in the sense that the verbal literary construction is very similar to the material of the narrated construction of El Escorial...". Hieronymus Bosch triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights that appears in the novel is another parallel to the structure and themes of the three-part novel.[4]Terra Nostra is closely related to Fuentes essay Cervantes or the Critique of Reading. Intertextuality is prominent throughout the novel. "
>>25172318Who hasn't read Borges? Honestly, the idea of someone being "into literature" and not knowing Borges is silly as fuck
>>25172310The only good Latin American authors are the ones who are basically European writers, ethnically. Same goes for Indigenous lit -- all the Thomas King types and such are at least half white. Latin American lit, then, is basically Western lit with chili peppers.
2666 by Roberto Bolano is one of my favorite books of all time.
>>25172310Do you like Carpentier? He is a bit more vintage than Fuentes. But I enjoy his work.
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>>25173472The only good Latin Americans are the ones that are heavy on the white/european/spanish genes. Ever met a Dominican?
>>25172310Pedro paramo is peak
>>25172315guy is one of the most romanticized pieces of shit pretty much ever and so insufferable to be around that Fidel and Raul more or less sent him off to die in Bolivia no purpose. no denying he lived an interesting life though
>>25173472False, Marquez mogs all
>>25173472Non-criticism, completely bereft of substance.>>25174371Why do you think so?
>>25172310Just refer to the madter:https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/beste.html
>>25174450I think Marquez was able to essentially create a Latin American mythos because of his roots in the culture. I don't care for more of the same dry, analytical literature pervading Westernized literature.
>>25174667I think the first place goes to Alejo Carpentier. He invented magical realism.
>>25172318>> Borges, Jorge Luis. A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. A man of infinite talent.
>>25174305>so insufferable to be around that Fidel and Raul more or less sent him off to die in Bolivia no purpose.Can't blame them, you need a saint's patience to be able to stand Argentinians
>>25174667A mythos? What do you mean by that?Also, his literature (and Latin American literature in general) draws deeply from the American and European modernists. Faulkner for García Márquez in particular. Drawing a distinction between the two is somewhat nonsensical.>>25174718If we are going to get anal about it Magical realism was invented in Germany to describe a peculiar style of painting. What Carpentier formulated was the idea of the "real wonderful" or "real marvellous". Which is different. And anyway, several writers came to an idea about that on their own several times.
dunno if this is the thread to ask about it, but where would I start to learn about aztecs and mayan mythology and life?
>>25175518>>25174305story is after the revolution he would more or less wake spend the entire day raping and executing people taking breaks only to drink mate and smoke cigars, it was wildly unpopular and bad optics even by communist dictator standards
>>25175951I honestly don't know how evil he or the Castro regime were after they took power. I know they disappeared a lot of people after they won the civil war and that they were opposed to the United States/friendly with the USSR and tanked their economy with draconian-already-disproven-socialist-economic-policies, but not much else especially in terms of the nitty gritty or the crimes that Castro & Che personally committed. Any books you can recommend on the crimes of these men?
>>25173472You're an idiot and need to get out.
>>25173472>Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life.How many Latin American writers were actually yuros larping?
>>25172310>Other /latam/ reccomendations anons?Yeah kys
>>25176159You sure got me, pal. Lemme just give into your point because you posted a quote from a crusty, pessimistic German man.
>>25177607Carpentier is the only one, as far as I know.He spoke with a makred French accent all his life, iirc.
>>25172310Palabra del mudo by Ribeyro
Yeah
>>25172310garcia marquezborges>>25175936i haven't read it (heard about it ages ago but haven't bothered buying/borrowing it) but the book 'fifth sun' is meant to be good i think
>>25177981Borges is another one, sorta. On one side of his family they were gauchos who fought in the independence wars, that's where Borges' obsession with that subject comes from. On the other side they were european immigrants (English) with a more aristocratic tint. He has said in many interviews that english and german sound much nicer to him than spanish, and how much richer languages they are. If I'm not mistaken, he also learned to speak english before spanish, and he was translating books from english to spanish before the age of 10.
>>25178467Many of his stories involve his Celtic British heritage - he was actually welsh. Form of the Sword notably is about the Irish struggle for independence
>>25178467No, the other side was not English. His paternal grandmother was English, from Staffordshire. That's why his household was bilingual.And it that famous interview he never privileges a language over another, iirc.
>>25178584>I find english a far finer language than spanish>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYoqCDKoT4
>>25174120I will give this a fair shot, but 'Love in times of cholera' was complete and utter garbage. The only decent thing of it was the prose; the story itself was dogshit, the characters bland and unidimensional.
>>25178584Yes I was wrong because I had thought he was Welsh (?). Regardless, Form of the Sword is a story very much of Ireland/ the British isles and is very emblematic of Borges’ British ethnicity.
>>25180086haven't seen this chart before thx anon saved
>>25180086>The autumn of the PatriarchOh I just finished reading that one a week ago.Very interesting and very fun, I plan on reading Bastos' then reading Benedetti's analysis. I've already read Carpentier's take.
>>25179289I thought it was fun and the story was compelling, almost like an exotic picaresque, and some of the insights about love and aging hit me as spot on
>>25179289Well I don't know how much it will fit but News of a kidnapping may work better for you. It's technically non-fiction, though.
>>25180173>Fun>A TL;DR schedule of an old man>At what times he takes a shit>The lineage, the complete biography of his parrot>Fun
>>25173472Nezahualcoyotl is probably the best and most original poet in america, so wrong.Juan Rulfo, Juan Jose Arreola, José Revueltas and Ibarguengoitia all contemporary novelists that lean on the indigenous side.Carlos Monsivais and Octavio Paz are heavily indigenous too, first is a chronist and latter nobel prize essayist and poet.Jorge Cuesta looks quite indian.Anyways, you are retarded.
>>25180314Nezahualcoyotl is only original because the tradition he drew from was almost totally wiped out.I've never been able to take Octavio Paz seriously after my faher told how and why he met him, back in the 70s. Just uncomfortable now.
>>25173472mestizos are white now?
