The best novelist of the 20th century was a beaner

>The best novelist of the 20th century was a beaner

How can us gringos even compete?

That's not Robert Heinlein

What does this have to do with politics?

Fuck off you dumb fat cunt youre ruining this board

He is colombian

Gabo is not only colombian, he is a filthy socialist too, and he is the best writer of the 20th century, fucking amazing.

Como si el gringo supiese la diferencia.

Beaner is a pejorative term for Mexicans. Gabo was Colombian. He gave us entire worlds with his magic realism.

My man

Mierda comunista.

Vargas Llosa is ok tho.

That's not Tolkien.

Never even heard of that donkey rapist.

That's not Mishima.

Please don't call us Colombians "beaners". The worst insult you can use against us is calling us "Mexicans".

That's not Borges though.

This

>I read fiction
kek

literally who

Borges didn't write novels you imbecile

>That's not Tolkien
I love Tolkien but the Gabo is on another level. Spic literature is overall superior to any other one.
>inb4 anglo butthurt
>inb4 muh Joyce
>inb4 Ulysses is not an overrated piece of shot I swear

Who is William Faulkner?

Don Quixote is my favorite book. I think the spic has a point. Spics really know how to write a story.

Germany accepting south american refugees too?

wtf are you doing in Germoney?

Soooo fucking over rated

It's either Nikos Kazantzakis or Kenzaburo Oe

>Nikos Kazantzakis or Kenzaburo Oe
That is not how you spell Juan Rulfo

While I agree Borges is probably the greatest all around writer who ever lived, he didn't write novels.

>wew look at me i rewrote genesis with mexicans

>novelist

stopped reading there

stop wasting time/energy reading fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the biggest piles of trash I ever read.

It reads like a Wikipedia article, the characters are soulless robots and there is little or no actual story.

I imagine the same kind of people who like pop lit garbage like The Kite Runner are the same people who think it's a masterpiece.

>Mexican intellectual

Fiction is good but almost all fiction after 1950 is complete trash. I have yet to find an exception to this rule.

>Spics really know how to make up bullshit tales

>The Kite Runner

That was just trash. I had to read it my senior year of high school. Basically handed me the book and said, "we spread cheeks for islam now."

He sucks.

>all fiction after 1950 is complete trash. I have yet to find an exception to this rule.
See

>He hasn't read Pedro Paramo
Consider suicide my man

It feels more like you're reading a non-fiction history book (but it is fictional and has magic in it) it's an interesting novel, unconventional

Its not a masterpiece at all,but it portrays the Afghanis as they actually - masochistic child rapist savages and tribalist assholes.

Have you read any William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, or William Gibson?

Yeah except that the villian was a blonde haired half breed that somehow found his way into Afghanistan because even in books set in the middle eats there needs to be a white villian.

Plus it ended with a battle scene out of a shonen anime. It was crap

The first chapter is great but then it goes off into cringey philosophy nonsense.
If I read a novel about space bugs, don't give me classroom lectures. Just give me space bugs and don't try to pretend that your novel is deep and intelligent.

Also, Stranger in a Strange Land is hippie bullshit.
Read Dan Simmons for real sci fi.

he's probably just a /lit/ pleb, they hate contemporary literature because they need a novel that's been praised for a hundred years before they feel it's safe to read

That's not Gene Wolfe

>shit on Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land

>Read Dan Simmons for real sci fi.

kys

Hes a pashtun, there are basicaly white pashtuns in afghanistan, not many, but you bet theyre the upper ecehlon of the society there. Look it up for yourself, there are blue eyed pashtuns. The rapist getting his eye shot out by a sligshot isnt that hard to believe. Its not a great book but I dont think its trash designed to brainwash kids, if anything it drops a slight red pill by making them realize that Muslims are rapists.

suck my mexican dick

Why do Mexicans and Colombians hate one another my bean fart smelling friend?

No idea, maybe because they compare our country with their village

McCarthy is the best

And I hate beans

Spanish lit will always be in a weird tie with French and Russian behind English. Americas spic lit is behind all four.

Shakespeare>>>>>>>>>Calderon de la Barca

Get out of here with your arbitrary date that should be closer to 1980 anyway.

That stupid beaner looks nothing like Hunter S. Thompson.

>Spanish lit will always be in a weird tie with French and Russian behind English
Most English lit is pretty pleby. Russian and Spanish lit are way better than English lit unless you include philosophical works.
> Shakespeare>>>>>>>>>Calderon de la Barca.
>Implying
> Implying that theatre is respectable

IT'S A FUCKING MARXIST!

>beaner
he looks pertty iberian

probably he got good spanish-tier gens for literature. End of the story.

>I read translations and am an authority on world literature

>this pleb shit

well, as a /lit/izen, i gotta tell you, you're a fucking pleb thinking this guy is worth dogshit. William Gaddis is the true greatest author of the 20th century. If you doubt me, go read JR. i guarantee every one of you will agree if you aren't a total unrelenting plebeian.

Ernest Hemingway was better.

I read english lit in english though.

>García Marquez is worth dogshit

and you can't fully appreciate it because you're not English

who says?

>Shitting on theatre
>Thinking youre opinion on lit holds any merit

And this is where I can no longer abide these conversations. I come to these threads, and this is even true on /lit/ and watch plebs like you drag the dramatic arts through the mud. The jews killed theatre with film so they could make bigger profits, they killed the only national theatre program the US had because of muh communist propaganda(yet look at film now), and they dealt the final blow with American broadway, hiking prices to see shallow trash with catchy songs. I guess its all for the best since people cant even be bothered to turn their phones off in the theater any more. The masses dont deserve to be reached out to by artists in a way only theatre csn accomplish.

The best novelist was a playwright.

Maybe you are right. But I think that my English is good enough

hemingway was a brainless child infected with zika virus, dribbling stool from a mouth connected to an inverted digestive tract next to Gaddis.
that faggot wasn't even the best. Felipe Alfau blew that spic away in every regard.

Cormac McCarthy is objectively the best novelist since Hemingway.

He doesn't respect other writers because they're generally pussies and keeps his office in a physics research institute.

Read Blood Meridian. Read The Road.

None of your meme writers come close.

This.

Fucking mods where the fuck are you? This isn't politics or news.

my point is unless you have a near native level in multiple languages you can't really claim which has better literature because you will be biased in the language you are stronger in

>The jews killed theatre
No they didn't. It just got outdated like the radio.
> The best novelist was a playwright.
Nope

>I am in college and I like drugs: The Post

He wasn't even the best spanish writer of the 20th century.

>that faggot wasn't even the best.
Rulfo was. Marquez is still one of the best writers of the last century

You can read and enjoy if you know the language, obviosly, it's not only about learning, it's about understanding with practice.

English is not a hard language, try german or french.

*obviously

The only theme he ever wrote about was underage whores. Seriously, read any of his books and they are all about nubile underage little sluts paired with old men.
Somehow it is "art" of the highest degree.

That's because art is subjetive, not everyone would enjoy it.

>Outdated

And yet people still go to concerts and pay for spotify and pandora. Good false equivalence bud. I guess I didnt realize Spanish theatre fell so fsr where the Spanish people think film can do everything everything a play can do.

you won't get understanding from it

you claim English isn't difficult, but I can tell just from your posts you only have rudimentary understanding of it, English has a lot nuances foreigners don't pick up

Is he the one that wrote game of thrones?

Best all in all NOVELISTS from Spanish speaking country from last century would be something like:
>Juan Rulfo
>Arguedas
>Bioy Casares
>Miguel de Unamuno
>Perez Galdos

And that's it.

Shakespeare is worth more than your entire canon

John Updike, JD Salinger, JL Borges, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe Grillet, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov

>The best novelist of the 20th century
According to whom?

A lot of the serious literature people call bolaño a meme author but yeah, for me he's the best too

Sheakespeare was a mediocre writer that had little influence in global literature. Cervantes was way more relevant than him and had a way bigger influence in literature as a whole.

>as a /lit/izen
This actually damages your credibility. Gaddis makes pure hackwork

>goes from the best to one of the best in such short order
your pleb is showing. i'll be kind and let you have top 100 best of the 20th century.

this is correct.

Cervantes moped the floor with Shakespeare.

>Gaddis
>Hackwork

obviously you haven't read any of his work. i'm sorry for your loss and lack of willpower to read a novel that requires effort.

Lel continentals always spam muh influence
Shakespeare is far, far out of Cervantes' lead.

I have read it, it was easy and simple. It also contained all of the hallmarks of juvenile hackwork.

>little influence in global literature
you're fucking trolling. greatest author of one of the greatest empires to ever exist, and yet little global impact. now i know why you like that faggot who wrote 101 years of solitude and wrote about prostitutes.

I grok that

such as? name one instance of hackwork.

See? I knew Spain wasnt white.

Gringos can produce miracles such as drinkable tap water. A fair number of beaners move up here to experience these miracles.

The very first page, where he's talking about masks. It's so childish and cliche. A few pages later, where he saririzes the man's new england family etc.

>Shakespeare is far, far out of Cervantes'
Lol. Just leave it dude. Cervantes' work could be published today and be a bestseller. He basically popularized novels while Sheakespeare sticked with theatre. Sheakespeare work is totally forgetable .
>greatest author of one of the greatest empires to ever exist, and yet little global impact.
What is Sheakespeare influence in literature? Some cool metaphors? He basically just plagiarized classical writers. Cervantes basically created modern literature

>bestseller
Lel, so is harry potter

Why are Spaniards so bad at shit posting?

As far as Western languages go.

English Lit > German Lit > French = Russian > Spanish

I'm not sure where Portuguese , Italian, or Dutch fall in the spectrum.

Asian lit isn't really comparable to Western Lit as those languages developed on different cultural tracks.

African lit, not the Colonial/Post-Colonial or Arabic stuff that fits into other literary categories, is actual shit tier if only because those cultures never developed proper writing systems.