Is Don Quixote the only worthwhile work written in Spain?
2666
La catedral del mar
>>7370136
he was chilean
No,
In Search of Lost Time comes to mind.
Picasso -- Gruernicca
San Manuel Bueno, mártir by unamuno is pretty dank
Ficciones
>>7370124
Saramago wrote most of his stuff in Spain, and most of his stuff is worthwhile.
Also works by García Lorca, if you're into poetry.
>>7370124
Carlos Ruíz Zafón - La sombra del viento
Fucking awesome
El tunel
>>7370296
>Not in Spain
2666 was written in Spain, He lived there since the 70s.
>>7370124
Ibn al Rushd
San Juan de la Cruz
Otherwise Spain is a cultural wasteland, yes.
>>7371120
Sábato? He's from Argentina.
>>7370124
La vida es sueño - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
>>7370124
el mio cid.
and there is a lot of good poetry from the siglo de oro.
El Cid
People like Garcia Lorca.
I remember reading carlos ruiz zafón as a kid and liking it, but for some reason seeing his books in all the stores here in Portugal makes me suspect he's not every good.
>>7372571
>>7372546
This, medieval spanish literature is great
Check out
Gonzalo de Berceo (Milagros de Nuestra Señora and his hagiography books are good)
Libro de Alexandre
Libro de Apolonio
Proverbios Morales by Sem Tob de Carrión
Libro del Caballero Zifar
La celestina by Fernando de Rojas (Very recommended)
Dança General de la Muerte (If you're interested in this kind of books)
Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique
El conde lucanor by Don Juan Manuel (Very recommended)
I suppose that some of these books won't be so interesting if you're not interested in medieval literature, but if you are it's a good period. Medieval spanish is also not too difficult to read if you have a good level of spanish. Catedra is a good editorial with some nice introductions for the texts.
>>7370124
Spain has top tier poets and playwrights, but most of you read only novels.
We have not been so proficient writing novels, but we still have a few authors that are better than some mediocre writers that are constantly shoved up our throats just because they wrote in English.
I'd make a chart but I'm too lazy:
El Conde Lucanor (medieval short stories)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
La Celestina
Don Quijote and other stuff by Cervantes, like Novelas Ejemplares
Lazarillo de Tormes
Quevedo's poetry, satirical prose and his only novel (the ckeekiest and wittiest motherfucker who ever wrote in Spanish, one of Borges' favourites)
Lope de Vega (tons of plays, sonets, etc.)
Calderón de la Barca (Life is Dream)
Garcilaso de la Vega
Góngora
Fernández de Moratín
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (for instanace,"Rimas y Leyendas")
Espronceda
Zorrilla
Larra
Pérez Galdós
Clarín (La Regenta)
Antonio Machado
García Lorca
J. R. Jiménez (mainly poetry)
Ortega y Gasset (philosophy, I think /lit/ would like him)
I acknowledge that Spanish literature is not as good as it used to be, but c'mon, don't be so smug about it, we have had very talented writers.
>>7370124
But Bacon wrote the quixote.
>>7372927
Quevedo is great, his satirical poems against Cervantes and Gongora are hilarious. Is kinda racist IMO.
>>7373182
>Quevedo is racist
Don't forget he's also a misogynist, homophobic, antisemitic and ableist shitlord.
I don't think we can't judge people who lived 400 years ago for this stuff.
Besides, is there anything Quevedo didn't hate?
>mfw Quevedo literally depicted Muhammad rotting in hell and claimed he was the worst man who has ever existed
>mfw the narrator was the author self inserted, so we read about Quevedo spouting it loudly at Muhammad face
>>7373576
I know he was the edgylord of the siglo de oro. Still I had some lols reading those poems, those were some quality bantz. Cervantes could beat the shit out of him with his only hand tho.
>>7373576
>mfw Quevedo literally depicted Muhammad rotting in hell and claimed he was the worst man who has ever existed
>implying he wasn't
>>7372880
He´s awesome, shut tf up. Yeah, he´s popular, but you´re not one of those contrarians, are you?
>>7370124
>Anglo ignorance
Is Shakespeare the only worthwhile author from England?
>>7373928
As a matter of fact, sir, I am.
>>7370124
Wow have you faggots really never heard of Adolfo Becquer? No wonder Anglo women are so frigid.
You have to be pretty stupid to believe that
>El Conde Lucanor
>Gonzalo de Berceo
>Cantar del Mio Cid
>Libro del Buen Amor
>Don Juan
>La Celestina
>Anything by Lope de Vega
>El Lazarillo
>Anything by Espronceda
>Anything by Larra
>Bécquer's Rimas y Leyendas
>Anything by Galdós
>Anything by Pío Baroja
>Anything by Unamuno
>La Regenta
>Anything by Valle-Inclán
>García Lorca (not a big fan of him but he is apparently loved outside)
>José Cela (La colmena and La familia de Pascual Duarte)
>Machado
>Miguel Hernández
And basically every author and work mentioned in this thread. But of course, if it's not memed about in the officially approved anglo exclusive /lit/core (with some namedrops from other countries to make it look more sophisticated) you don't think it's worth your time.
He rapes his horse, Rocinante.
>>7373934
>Is Shakespeare the only worthwhile author from England?
Tbh yes
>>7374121
I don't remember that.
>>7374082
>>Anything by Pío Baroja
>mfwJust kidding. Umbral was a bit of an obnoxious selfworshipping cunt.
Baroja has a lot of mediocre novels though.
bumpo
