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Let the Wind Speak (Extraordinary Classics)Let the Wind Speak (Extraordinary Classics) by Juan Carlos Onetti
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Just so you have an idea, he's the Celine, Faulkner, Knut Hamsun kind of writer
The Event (Masks)The Event (Masks) by Juan José Saer
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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
The Burning Plain: and other Stories (Texas Pan-American Series)The Burning Plain: and other Stories (Texas Pan-American Series) by Juan Rulfo
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Stealing John Updike's judgement of Nabokov, I'd say that Rulfo "Writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically."
The unknown light: The poems of Fray Luis de LeonThe unknown light: The poems of Fray Luis de Leon by Luis de Leon
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The Seven Madmen (Extraordinary Classics)The Seven Madmen (Extraordinary Classics) by Roberto Arlt
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Do you like complots? Forget the Da Vinci Code. This is the real thing.
Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected PoemsUnthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems by Juan Gelman
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Probably the greatest Argentine poet
A Violent LifeA Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics)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 GhostsThe Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
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Incredible African writer.
Lands of MemoryLands of Memory by Esther Allen
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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
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)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)Selected Cronicas: Essays (New Directions Paperbook, 834) by Clarice Lispector
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Borges: Selected PoemsBorges: Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
The EyeThe Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
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Pichiciegos, Los (Coleccion Narrativas Argentinas) (Spanish Edition)Pichiciegos, Los (Coleccion Narrativas Argentinas) (Spanish Edition) by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
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A yet to be translated writer. Falklands War. Sometimes are hilarious, somtimes heartbreaking. Somehow in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 line
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book)One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book) by Kenneth Rexroth
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By Night in ChileBy Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
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probably not the genious magazines want him to be (now that he's dead). But still worth checking.
George Seferis: Collected PoemsGeorge Seferis: Collected Poems by George Seferis
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War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's IliadWar 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)Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (The Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
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The Complete Posthumous PoetryThe Complete Posthumous Poetry by César Vallejo
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Forget Lorca, forget Neruda and the rest.
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets)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)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 poetsThe Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: With translations by American and British poets
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La CienagaLa Cienaga
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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.