Spanish Books?

[The Intransigent Faction]

So, my younger sister is studying Spanish and will be going to Spain next year, and she asked for a non-specific Spanish book (novel, non-fiction, whatever) for Christmas. Does anyone here have any recommendations? I'm kinda in the dark on this one.

[The Disillusionist]

Though they're hard reads, anything by Juan Gelman, Pablo Neruda, Luis Santos, Eduardo Galeano, Carmen Cecilia Suárez, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez would be a good choice. These authors are all pretty renowned, and I think most of them are leftist as well.

I'm a third year Spanish student, and those are majority of the authors we went over in class this semester. I haven't taken a Spanish literature class yet though (that's next semester), so I can't give you as much info as I'd like.

[The Jay]

Try giving Don Quixote. It is a classic but I haven't read it.

[Creative Destruction]

Roberto Bolaño's 2666.

[Bala Perdida]

I read Capital in Spanish lol

[The Disillusionist]

I read Capital in Spanish lol

You think that's impressive? Marx wrote it in German. :laugh:

[The Jay]

You think that's impressive? Marx wrote it in German. :laugh:

Why don't you fuck off and not mock someone for reading a translation.

[The Disillusionist]

Why don't you fuck off and not mock someone for reading a translation.

It was a joke. It's a pretty old joke format too, using the classic art of misdirection and unexpected conclusion. For example: "You think running a mile in 5 minutes is impressive? I can drive it in 1." The punchline to my joke was that Marx was German, and so writing it in German actually wasn't difficult for him at all, and therefore not as impressive as I initially made it sound in the premise of my constructed sentence.

^Here I use the additional comedic technique of awkwardly overexplaining the joke for humorous effect.

[The Jay]

You are bad at making jokes.

[The Disillusionist]

You are bad at making jokes.

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[DDR]

Sin noticias de Gurb is a very funny novel about two aliens lost in Barcelona at the begining of the 90s. El caso Savolta is a good one also, it is a thriller with the events of the tragic week of Barcelona on the background.

If your sister likes poetry try Lorca's Romancero Gitano, Machado's Campos de Castilla or anything from Bequer.