Experimental books by Spanish/Latino writers

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Experimental books by Spanish/Latino writers

1GustavoCocteau
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2021, 5:35 pm

In the English language I like Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, a bit of Joyce (I don't like many references, so, I don't like very much Terra Nostra), William Carlos Williams, the Beatniks, Frank O'Hara and his friends... In the French language I like the surrealists, Cocteau, Blaise Cendrars, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Exupéry, Tzara, etc.

And, yeah strange, I didn't find Borges and García Marquez soooooo interesting.
Borges uses too many references
García Marquez's surrealism is cool but most of the time I find his books boring.

2lilithcat
okt 31, 2021, 5:04 pm

3susanbooks
Bewerkt: okt 31, 2021, 6:48 pm

The Memory of Fire trilogy by Eduardo Galeano

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera-Garza but read some stories by Amparo Davilo first or you'll be lost

4thorold
nov 1, 2021, 2:16 am

The most obvious overlaps with French culture might be Cortázar from Argentina (cf. >2 lilithcat:), Juan Goytisolo from Spain and Alejo Carpentier from Cuba.

5vwinsloe
nov 1, 2021, 9:35 am

6merrystar
nov 3, 2021, 10:30 pm

I also thought of Cortázar -- I'm particularly fond of some of the stories in his collection All Fires the Fire.

Mist or Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr by Miguel de Unamuno might work.