![]() | Let the Wind Speak (Extraordinary Classics) by Juan Carlos Onetti
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $2.30 Just so you have an idea, he's the Celine, Faulkner, Knut Hamsun kind of writer
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![]() | The Event (Masks) by Juan José Saer
Buy used from: $4.58 is one of the major writers of the generation that came after the so called Latinamerican Boom (Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, etc.) under which influence, unfortunately, we are still reading
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![]() | The Burning Plain: and other Stories (Texas Pan-American Series) by Juan Rulfo
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.93 Stealing John Updike's judgement of Nabokov, I'd say that Rulfo "Writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically."
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![]() | The unknown light: The poems of Fray Luis de Leon by Luis de Leon
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![]() | The Seven Madmen (Extraordinary Classics) by Roberto Arlt
Buy used from: $8.49 Do you like complots? Forget the Da Vinci Code. This is the real thing.
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![]() | Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems by Juan Gelman
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $4.90 Probably the greatest Argentine poet
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![]() | A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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![]() | The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
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![]() | The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.05 Incredible African writer.
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![]() | Lands of Memory by Esther Allen
Buy used from: $0.72 A very original and subversive writer. Very strange, very personal way of telling, with a surrealist touch here and there. A favorite of Italo Calvino
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![]() | The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)
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![]() | Selected Cronicas: Essays (New Directions Paperbook, 834) by Clarice Lispector
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![]() | Borges: Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.40 Borges' poetry explores the same themes he does in his prose works but Except for his earlier stuff, influenced by Whitman, he's closer to Robert Frost and to T.S.Eliot.
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![]() | The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
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![]() | Pichiciegos, Los (Coleccion Narrativas Argentinas) (Spanish Edition) by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
Buy used from: $65.78 A yet to be translated writer. Falklands War. Sometimes are hilarious, somtimes heartbreaking. Somehow in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 line
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![]() | One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book) by Kenneth Rexroth
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.11 |
![]() | By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.99 probably not the genious magazines want him to be (now that he's dead). But still worth checking.
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![]() | George Seferis: Collected Poems by George Seferis
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![]() | War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue
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![]() | Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (The Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
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![]() | The Complete Posthumous Poetry by César Vallejo
Buy new: $19.72 / Used from: $2.69 Forget Lorca, forget Neruda and the rest.
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![]() | The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets)
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![]() | Pliny: Natural History, Volume II, Books 3-7 (Loeb Classical Library No. 352) by Pliny
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![]() | The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: With translations by American and British poets
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![]() | La Cienaga
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $11.70 This and "The Holy Girl". Latin film is is slowly crawling out of decades of financial disabilities and painfully struggling to form a kind of national identity or "feel", rather.
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