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Anonymous Sat Jul 6 13:18:24 2019 No.13420784 [Reply] [Original]

There is not 1 book in Spanish that is worth reading in the original language. I have studied Spanish for 5 years but don't even bother reading anything since all the fiction is either fairy-tale-tier magical realism or ripped off French literature. All Spanish language philosophers, especially from South America, seem to be dime a dozen Marxists with no originality. The Conservatives like Donoso Cortes are just rip offs of French conservatives like De Maistre. The religious writing is just bourgeois sentimentalism that, once again, lacks any distinct originality.
Is there really anything worth reading in Spanish?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 13:29:19 2019 No.13420822 >5 years >being able to read Góngora Yeah, try again in 10 years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 13:30:14 2019 No.13420826 >>13420784 Nicolás Gómez Dávila

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 13:48:10 2019 No.13420894 >>13420784 Nerds are the worst

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 13:56:26 2019 No.13420922 >>13420784 Have you tried Don Quixote?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:09:38 2019 No.13420976 Borges?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:13:24 2019 No.13420988 >>13420822 >>13420826 Patricians

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:13:45 2019 No.13420990 File: 94 KB, 1000x1187, don-quijote-de-la-mancha-in-his-uniform-carlista-y-sancho-panza-augusto-ferrer-dalmau.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of me establishing the modern novel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:20:05 2019 No.13421004 >>13420976 Magical Realism trash >>13420822 Poetry is never worth reading. >>13420826 Colombian De Maistre with no originality >>13420990 >>13420922 Glorified Kids' Book whose length is inversely proportional to its literary value.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:24:06 2019 No.13421022 Juan Rulfo Jorge Luis Borges Francisco de Quevedo

>>	Sage'd because OP is a cringy (...) Sat Jul 6 14:25:18 2019 No.13421025 >>13421004 >Borges >Magical realism Commit suicide, pleb. Saged.

Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:26:48 2019 No.13421030

>>13421025
>"Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have been considered by some critics to mark the beginning of the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature"
You have no understanding of literature I see. Cringe!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:30:43 2019 No.13421050 >>13421030 His only work that could be classified as magical realism is Universal History of Infamy, which was his first collection, and even then it's enjoyable to read. You have no understanding of Borges, I see. C R I N G E.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:33:01 2019 No.13421062 >>13420784 Pedro Páramo is worth reading in Spanish. No English translation has made it justice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:34:06 2019 No.13421069 File: 71 KB, 640x427, 2056641388_5a0bf0de2d_z.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13421050 Clearly you did not read what I just posted. Are you unable to read even a sentence? LMAO!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:34:52 2019 No.13421077 >>13421004 >Poetry is never worth reading Welp, case dismissed, this anon has no idea wtf he's talking about

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:40:08 2019 No.13421100 >>13421069 I have read Borges' entire body of work, and you haven't. So yeah, I'm the voice of reason here. Nothing personal, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:43:09 2019 No.13421116 >>13421100 Keep projecting. I have read Borges; he is extremely underwhelming, as to be expected with people like you who read him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:46:10 2019 No.13421135 >>13421116 Shit taste, my friend. Commit suicide and never come back to /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:53:20 2019 No.13421165 >>13421135 Who hurt you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 14:58:24 2019 No.13421192 >>13421030 >parroting Wikipedia

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 15:00:59 2019 No.13421201 >>13421030 >Wikipediafag

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 15:03:33 2019 No.13421211 >>13421192 >>13421201 >No argument to say otherwise

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 15:04:07 2019 No.13421213 File: 214 KB, 1500x1000, 1551850668689.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13421165 Plebbitors are not welcome here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 15:05:52 2019 No.13421221 >>13421211 There's a clear difference between fantastic literature, fantasy literature and magical realism. I would recommend Todorov's introduction to fantastic literature if you are really interested. If you are being a fag just because, kys

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 15:06:39 2019 No.13421226 >>13421211 >>13421050 He wasn't a magical realist. He had a collection of short stories that was proto-magical realist. He never saw his work that way for that matter, unlike García Márquez or Rushdie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 15:10:23 2019 No.13421237 >>13420784 Adios Cordera. Un Perro Verde. La Regenta. El Arbol de la Ciencia. Pedro Paramo. Lituma en los Andes. La Guerra del Fin del Mundo. El Lazarillo. Those come to my mind right now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 16:29:08 2019 No.13421564 >Poetry is never worth reading. >Glorified Kids' Book whose length is inversely proportional to its literary value. You are a pseud

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 16:38:15 2019 No.13421597 >>13420784 I have never read spanish literature in english, but I can see it being easily translated.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 17:17:21 2019 No.13421761 >>13420784 Go back to your John Green novels faget

Anonymous Sat Jul 6 19:26:33 2019 No.13422418

>>13420784
>Spanish for 5 years
Don't fuckingtell me that you fucking majored in Spanish. Oh shit nigger.
Why do you think English speakers don't fucking bother reading Spanish novels and academic works? Because they know very well that they cannot do anything original.

You fucked yourself up, OP.
But hey, at least you will be able to live somewhere in Ecuador if the U.S. collapses due to the greedy businessmen outsourcing absolutely everything.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 6 19:30:37 2019 No.13422434 >>13421004 >Poetry is never worth reading You what?

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