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As far as I know, the Embassy doesn’t employ any literary scholars.
I thought I’d help out.
Here’s my counter-top-10 “Spanish” novel recommendations—translated from Basque, Galician, and Catalan as well as Spanish and published mostly by independents.
Thread. https://twitter.com/SpainInTheUSA/status/1337442023478005760
I thought I’d help out.
Here’s my counter-top-10 “Spanish” novel recommendations—translated from Basque, Galician, and Catalan as well as Spanish and published mostly by independents.
Thread. https://twitter.com/SpainInTheUSA/status/1337442023478005760
Mercè Rodoreda, “War, So Much War” ( @open_letter)
An excellent, impressionistic novel about the Spanish Civil War by one of the most important Catalan writers of the 20th century.
I wrote about it a few years ago for @LAReviewofBooks
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/merce-rodoredas-war/
An excellent, impressionistic novel about the Spanish Civil War by one of the most important Catalan writers of the 20th century.
I wrote about it a few years ago for @LAReviewofBooks
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/merce-rodoredas-war/
Rafael Chirbes, “On the Edge” ( @NewDirections)
A really powerful novel about an elderly father and son in Valencia who lose everything after the 2008 financial crisis.
I wrote a scholarly article about how the novel thinks about environmental issues
https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/hiol_24_13_seguin_.pdf
A really powerful novel about an elderly father and son in Valencia who lose everything after the 2008 financial crisis.
I wrote a scholarly article about how the novel thinks about environmental issues
https://cla.umn.edu/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/hiol_24_13_seguin_.pdf
Elvira Navarro, “A Working Woman” ( @CATranslation)
Another excellent novel about the 2008 financial crisis, this one focusing on how it affected millennial roommates in Madrid.
Here’s an interview between Navarro and her translator in @wwborders https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/elvira-navarro-interview-with-a-working-author-christina-macsweeney
Another excellent novel about the 2008 financial crisis, this one focusing on how it affected millennial roommates in Madrid.
Here’s an interview between Navarro and her translator in @wwborders
https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/elvira-navarro-interview-with-a-working-author-christina-macsweeney
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, “The Winterlings” ( @RestlessBooks)
A great novel about postwar Galicia narrated by a pair of middle-aged sisters, who return from exile in England.
I wrote about it several years ago for @PublicBooks https://www.publicbooks.org/spanish-civil-wars/
A great novel about postwar Galicia narrated by a pair of middle-aged sisters, who return from exile in England.
I wrote about it several years ago for @PublicBooks
https://www.publicbooks.org/spanish-civil-wars/
Andrés Barba, “Such Small Hands” ( @transitbks)
Another excellent novel with a collective narrator, this one told from the point of view of girls at an orphanage.
I also wrote about it, several years ago for @LAReviewofBooks https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mortifying-miniatures-on-andres-barbas-such-small-hands/
Another excellent novel with a collective narrator, this one told from the point of view of girls at an orphanage.
I also wrote about it, several years ago for @LAReviewofBooks
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mortifying-miniatures-on-andres-barbas-such-small-hands/
Ramon Saizarbitoria, “Martutene” ( @Hispabooks)
A wonderful, 800-page novel about post-ETA Basque society told through eyes of a middle-aged couple in Gipuzkoa.
It was reviewed several years ago by @sebasfaber in @PublicBooks https://www.publicbooks.org/the-basque-novel-comes-of-age/
A wonderful, 800-page novel about post-ETA Basque society told through eyes of a middle-aged couple in Gipuzkoa.
It was reviewed several years ago by @sebasfaber in @PublicBooks
https://www.publicbooks.org/the-basque-novel-comes-of-age/
Harkaitz Cano, “Twist” ( @archipelagobks)
A novel about the Basque Country during the 1980s, where suspected ETA militants were sequestered and killed extra-judicially by the Spanish army.
Here’s a review by the brilliant @casamrter in @asymptotejrnl https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/04/05/in-review-twist-by-harkaitz-cano/
A novel about the Basque Country during the 1980s, where suspected ETA militants were sequestered and killed extra-judicially by the Spanish army.
Here’s a review by the brilliant @casamrter in @asymptotejrnl
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/04/05/in-review-twist-by-harkaitz-cano/
Sara Mesa, “Four by Four” ( @open_letter)
A penetrating novel about a boarding school, where the isolated micro-society of children and teachers is upended by what happens outside the walls.
Here’s a brief review from @worldlittoday https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2020/autumn/four-four-sara-mesa
A penetrating novel about a boarding school, where the isolated micro-society of children and teachers is upended by what happens outside the walls.
Here’s a brief review from @worldlittoday
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2020/autumn/four-four-sara-mesa
Manuel Rivas, “Books Burn Badly” ( @vintagebooks)
A literary quilt of a novel that narrates a history since the Spanish Civil War by perhaps the most renowned Galician writer today.
*It has an entire chapter—no joke—on Carl Schmitt being honored by a Francoist think tank.*
A literary quilt of a novel that narrates a history since the Spanish Civil War by perhaps the most renowned Galician writer today.
*It has an entire chapter—no joke—on Carl Schmitt being honored by a Francoist think tank.*
Joan Sales, “Uncertain Glory” ( @nyrbclassics)
A novel about Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War by one of the writers who lived through it.
It was reviewed by Leslie Harkema in @MassReview several years ago
https://www.massreview.org/node/909
A novel about Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War by one of the writers who lived through it.
It was reviewed by Leslie Harkema in @MassReview several years ago
https://www.massreview.org/node/909
