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| jmlgws Senior Member Canada Joined 7104 days ago 102 posts - 104 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 4 06 January 2007 at 8:18am | IP Logged |
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Could somebody give me a short tour of noted Spanish authors? In particular I would be looking for relatively "easy" reading at this point, say short stories, perhaps similar to Guy de Maupassant in French. It would be even better if I can get free text and audio for these authors :) Thanks.
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| fazer6 Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 6533 days ago 19 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Italian, Swahili | Message 2 of 4 07 January 2007 at 9:55am | IP Logged |
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The easiest novel I have ever read in Spanish was a translation of Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, it's called La Semilla del Diablo. I was in New York and throught from the title it sounded like an apalling B movie and so must be easy to read. I was right. It's no wonderful piece of literature, but it's relatively interesting (in a B movie kind of way), and amusing. I read it just after living in Spain for 6 months and after a few pages read it without a dictionary it was that easy.
On the basis of that I figured Stephen King would be easy to read, but despite being a mass produced horror series, the level of vocab is quite high. It's taking me quite a while to read his books. When I lived in Germany a guy from Curacao recommended The house of spirits by Isabelle Allende. I started with that and then worked my way through a few of her books in Spanish and a few english translations. If you stick to one author you will learn their style of writing and vocab they use. A mexican recommended Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Some of his books are quite short too. 100 Años de soledad and Cronica de una muerte anunciada should be good openers for someone starting to read literature. Can you join a local university library? They'll definatly have allende and garcia marquez in english and Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FallingStar Groupie Argentina Joined 6554 days ago 82 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Spanish* Studies: Finnish, English | Message 3 of 4 08 January 2007 at 9:34am | IP Logged |
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oh! yes,I think you definetly should try with Gabriel García Marquez and Isabel Allende.They're both amazing writers. 100 años de soledad,by García Marquez is one of the most wonderful books I've ever read,but if you're searching for short stories I would recommend you "crónica de una muerte anunciada" or "relato de un naufrago".
"la casa de los espíritus" by Isabel allende,is also a great novel. The Spanish translations of Edgar allan Poe's tales are quite easy to understand too,so maybe you could try with them. And if you enjoy the poetry,Pablo Neruda is one of the best latin american poets =) chau! Edited by FallingStar on 09 January 2007 at 10:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cypher Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 6929 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Korean | Message 4 of 4 12 January 2007 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
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The newspaper is probably clearer and easier to read than any fiction. Unlike fiction, its primary function is to inform, so there won't be a lot of excessive descriptive language which, while colorful, may not always be immediately useful. If you're not already doing it, try reading the news in Spanish.
Google News has headline news for many countries, here's the link for Mexico: http://news.google.com/news?ned=es_mx Edited by Cypher on 12 January 2007 at 11:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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