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Igualmente Daniel del Real. Yo también vivo el mismo sentimiento cuando encuentro a un compatriota. No es nada fácil encontrarse españoles -o ciudadanos de habla hispana en general- en foros relacionados con filosofía y letras.

?? Julio Caro Baroja, temas castizos. Interesting book about customs and language on specific territories of Spain. I guess more than a book it is a very good historical essay of social culture between XVIII and XIX centuries. ?? José Echegaray, el gran Galeoto. Echegaray was a nobel price...

I fully recommend to you Spanish writers, I guess you would like the literature of my country.

If you are interested about Mediterranean intellectuals, which are your thoughts about Ortega y Gasset, Baroja, Cela, Cánovas del Castillo and Galdós?

Thank you for your reply. You clarified me a lot of doubts and now I will keep in mind Beckett's works in another perspective.

It is time to read the Irish masters. ?? Bernard Shaw, plays pleasant. To be honest, it is my first time reading irish theatre, but I am exited because I recently read a lot of reviews of this author and looks like a good book to start with. He was a Nobel prize winner back in 1922. Let's see...

Thank you for sharing this list from Folha de Saõ Paulo. We already know these lists can make a lot of contradictories but I am so happy to see Ulysses by James Joyce in the first place. To be honest, he completely deserves it. But the list is full of very good authors and novels (Samuel...

I would recommend to you a very important book from the Spanish literature. It is called Juan de Mairena, by Antonio Machado. It is all about dialogues between a teacher and his students. You will find out since philosophy debates to heartbreaking questions about why Spain is a divided country...

I am ready to read in the following days Les Soleils des indépendances. I am exited because after checking some of Kourouma's life, this books looks so interesting. Let’s see what in the future and this story hold. Sadly, Kourouma only wrote three novels in his life. Nevertheless, sometimes is...

I have checked that this forum never talked specifically about Pío before so I going to make a reference. Pío Baroja is probably one of the most important writers of Spanish literature. We can categorise him inside the generación del 98. just to understand him better I point out two different...

Interesting. If you like Basque Country writers I would recommend to you Fernando Aramburu and his book Patria. It is so emotional because it is about the polarity about politics inside regions in Spain.

I would say Francisco de Quevedo and Miguel de Cervantes. Also, lazarillo de tormes is a good novel but is anonymou. I wish one day we can figure out who wrote this Spanish masterpiece

?? Søne Kierkegaard - the concept of anxiety. This is one of the books which I was looking for long ago. I like how Kierkegaard decides to change the concept we usually have of anxiety. Sometimes, in our lives, we walk through paths that could be difficult so it leads us into the limb or...

Murakami has a lot of original imagination. When I read 1Q84 and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World I thought: “wow this writer is so unique in terms of developing characters and scenarios”. But sometimes, Haruki makes a mistake (just my opinion) for being so ambiguous. Even in 1Q84...

Hello there, mi name is Javi. I am from Madrid, Spain. Nice to meet you all. I have joined this forum because I see so interesting the thread about Nobel prizes and the debate of their works. Also, the rest of the rest of the threads talking and debating about literature. Just to introduce a...