I'm an educator in America. I know English, and I'm in the process of learning Spanish to communicate with students, but I really don't like the language very much.
Recommend me books that will show me the good side of the language.
I'm fairly proficient, I'm a second year student at a nearby university where I'm being sponsored to get a degree in the language, but it's been purely out of a feeling of obligation.
I need the practice of active reading in the language anyway.
>>7598176
Final del Juego - Julio Cortazar
Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo
>>7598176
La vida es sueño-Calderon de la barca
Jose Rizal: Noli Me Tangere
Meme authors:
Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa (I dont like him) Bolaño, Neruda, Cortazar, Bioy Casares
>>7598211
But anon Vargas Llosa has some great works! Have you read La Ciudad y los Perros?
>>7598176
Visión de Anahuac by Alfonso Reyes
Also La Cena, by Alfonso Reyes aswell.
>>7598176
What don't you like about the Spanish language?
My Canadian-Spanish friend forever sings the praise of Lorca.
>>7598176
>>7598176
El Lazarillo de Tormes
That shit is dickesian
Spanish is a peasant language. Forget it and learn French instead.
>>7598176
Ok, I already made this for you. Enjoy.
>>7598176
Miguel de Unamuno - Niebla
Jorge Luis Borges - El Aleph
Xavier Villaurrutia - Nocturnos
From the latter:
SOÑAR, soñar la noche, la calle, la escalera
Y el grito de la estatua desdoblando la esquina.
Correr hacia la estatua y encontrar sólo el grito,
querer tocar el grito y solo hallar el eco,
querer asir el eco y encontrar sólo el muro
y correr hacie el muro y tocar un espejo.
hallar en el espejo la estatua asesinada,
sacarla de la sangre de su sombra,
vestirla en un cerrar de ojos,
acariciarla como a una hermana imprevista
y jugar con las fichas de sus dedos
y contar a su oreja cien veces cien cien veces
hasta oírla decir: “estoy muerta de sueño”.
Unamuno - Niebla
Azorín - La voluntad (Warning, might need to look up the historical and political context of the Spain Azorin lived to understand it.)
>>7598211
People who would minimize Borges do not deserve to breathe.
