Originally posted by Bosse de Nage'Paisajes después de la batalla' is simply outstanding! [I think the translation would be 'landscapes after the battle'] Catalunya has given the world remarkable personalities to world art.
Do you like Juan Goytisolo?
Have you tried Julio Cortázar? Any reader of Borges would kill me for what I am about to say, but I am Cortazarian all the way even above Borges, no matter he's the author of my personal favorite 'Funes el memorioso' 🙂
Originally posted by jareyesI have read one excellent book of his. I can't remember the title but the game of hopscotch had a symbolic and structural function in it.
Have you tried Julio Cortázar?
I heard a group of singers in Barcelona singing what was evidently a popular national song. The chorus sounded something like "tan cor perclat"... Well, maybe you can tell me what it was. My Castilian is poor, my Catalan non-existent.
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Originally posted by Bosse de NageAaarrrghhh... 'Rayuela' is my favorite novel. He is a true player by many, many factors but, just as a small example, the 'guide' of chapters in the beginning and the chapter where you must read pair and/or impair lines. Try not to skip the short-tale collection 'Furor Matutino'... I'll try to seek the English version for you, alright?
I have read one excellent book of his. I can't remember the title but the game of hopscotch had a symbolic and structural function in it.
I heard a group of singers in Barcelona singing what was evidently a popular national song. The chorus sounded something like "tan cor perclat"... Well, maybe you can tell me what it was. My Castilian is poor, my Catalan non-existent.
It's quite refreshing seeing someone using the term 'Castillian' for our 'Spanish'... yeah, mine is good, of course, since it's one of my mother tongues but unfortunately I don't speak Catalan. There is a quite respectable amount of Catalanes in MX, though.
Originally posted by jareyesGreat. I'll pay for the postage 🙂
I'll try to seek the English version for you, alright?
It's quite refreshing seeing someone using the term 'Castillian' for our 'Spanish'... yeah, mine is good, of course, since it's one of my mother tongues but unfortunately I don't speak Catalan. There is a quite respectable amount of Catalanes in MX, though.
I used "Castilian" thought you were from Barcelona (I didn't check your flag). Any good Mexican writers out there?
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Originally posted by Bosse de NageOh, that'll work too... actually I was looking for an electronic version but to no avail. Unfortunately, I haven't seen in Eastern Europe any Cortazar book in English, just the local languages and perhaps in Russian for obvious reasons 🙁
Great. I'll pay for the postage 🙂
I used "Castilian" thought you were from Barcelona (I didn't check your flag). Any good Mexican writers out there?
[I'll keep trying my best]
Absolutely, there is always competition between MX writers and South Americans for, taking away Carlos Fuentes, they 'flooded' the 'boom' in literature a couple of decades ago [Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize Gabriel García Márquez, etc.]
Unfortunately for them, taking away Borges and Cortazar, the 'magic realism' that characterized the so-called 'boom' comes mainly from MX Juan Rulfo [my personal opinion is that overrated Gabriel García Márquez copies a lot from him and not, as he claims, from Faulkner].
Right now in Paris there is a revival of Rulfo, actually. Hey, how about SA literature?
Edit. Riask, almost forget: Octavio Paz (Nobel Prize winner, although NP is nothing but a simpathy vote 😉 )
Originally posted by jareyesJM Coetzee is the most internationally acclaimed SA writer, though his style doesn't thrill me. And of course Wilbur Smith is very successful. I like Ivan Vladislavich, Herman Charles Bosman, Antjie Krog, Breyten Breytenbach, and Zakes Mda (Vladislavich & Bosman being my absolute favourites). I am guilty of neglecting local literature, though. There are many writers who's work I've not delved into. Then again, there's only so much time.
Right now in Paris there is a revival of Rulfo, actually. Hey, how about SA literature?
I like Paz's poetry, though I've only read it in French.
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Originally posted by Bosse de NageCoetzee rings a bell, though with shame I declare myself an ignorant when it comes to SA literature.
JM Coetzee is the most internationally acclaimed SA writer, though his style doesn't thrill me. And of course Wilbur Smith is very successful. I like Ivan Vladislavich, Herman Charles Bosman, Antjie Krog, Breyten Breytenbach, and Zakes Mda (Vladislavich & Bosman being my absolute favourites). I am guilty of neglecting local literature, though. There a in, there's only so much time.
I like Paz's poetry, though I've only read it in French.
The funny thing is that in MX the poetry of Paz is not read in a massive fashion, for he is more aprecciated by 'The Labyrinth of Solitude', the best writing to grasp some of the contradictory and colorfull nature of Mexicans -together with Alan Riding's 'Distant Neighbors' and, with an historical interest, Lowry's 'Under the Volcano' and John Reed's 'Insurgent Mexico'