I speak pretty decent Spanish but I’m getting filtered by Borges trying to read it in the original Spanish. Can anyone recommend other Spanish language literature that’s a little more digestible for a foreigner-Garcia Marquez is even harder so please don’t recommend him.

Thanks

>>24524904 (OP)
Pretty much all the literary stuff in Spanish is linguistically sophisticated or polished. Maybe you can try reading Arturo Pérez-Reverte. He writes adventure novels. I recommend the Alatriste novels.

Quiroga

>>24524904 (OP)
El túnel by Sábato. It's short and concise from what I remember.

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal

>>24524904 (OP)
>Garcia Marquez is even harder
Not all of it. The kidnapping book is straightforward Spanish. It is non-fiction technically but does read like fiction.

If you like humor, read Jaime Bayly El Canalla Sentimental.

>>24524904 (OP)
Los hermanos Karamazov

>>24524904 (OP)
Pic related, from Vargas Llosa you can also try La ciudad y los perros, although that's more experimental so it might be above your paygrade. I also recommend El coronel no tiene quien le escribe, It's Márquez but it's short.

>>24524904 (OP)
Julio Ramón Ribeyro - La tentación del fracaso (memories), La palabra del mudo (short stories)
Mario Benedetti - La tregua (novel)
Mario Vargas Llosa - La fiesta del chivo (novel), La verdad de las mentiras (essays about books)
Gabriel García Márquez - Relato de un nàufrago

Vargas Llosa's first books (1960's, 70's) are the complicated ones, but in their later works, like La fiesta del chivo, he writes in a clearer language.
Many of García Márquez's books may have a flowery language but Relato de un náufrago is a novelistic journalistic reportage. That is to say, he uses a clearer language without embellishments like a newspaper report but in the form of a novel.
You can also read memoirs and essays that do not use novelistic language but a clearer and more concise one.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro is known for having a very simple language in his stories and writings.

>>24525403
are Ribeyro's complete stories worth it? just saw a book that compiles them

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Thanks-gonna look into these

>>24524904 (OP)
Jorge Borge wrote in Argentine Spanish and made up words too which is why you’re struggling

>>24524904 (OP)
I’m also a non native speaker and I get filtered by Borges’ writing sometimes. However I read all of 2666 in Spanish last year and aside from some Mexican slang it was easy to understand, try Bolaño.

>>24525435
>Jorge Borge wrote in Argentine Spanish
I wouldn't say that. His work is very neutral in his two biggest books (Ficciones and The Aleph). His prose is formal with no perceptible local dialect (e.g. he even uses "tú" over "vos" from what I remember).
>made up words too which is why you’re struggling
What words did he make up? He's no Lewis Carroll, unless I read the wrong author. He was not that kind of writer. He was a cosmopolitan formalist who didn't like writing in dialect and didn't really experiment much linguistically. It's one of the reasons why his work is easily translated and world-friendly.

>>24525408
Yes, worth it. The most recognized of his work are his short stories and memoirs. His stories are about everyday things and ordinary people in marginal urban and middle class environments.

He also has another small book “Prosas apátridas” with small texts, prose, with thoughts on various topics.
For example:
"Los años nos alejan de la infancia sin llevarnos forzosamente a la madurez. Uno de los pocos méritos que admito en un autor como Gombrowicz es haber insistido, hasta lo grotesco, en el destino inmaduro del hombre., La madurez es una impostura inventada por los adultos para justificar sus torpezas y procurarle una base legal a su autoridad.. El espectáculo que ofrece la historia antigua y actual es siempre el espectáculo de un juego cruel, irracional,imprevisible, ininterrumpido. Es falso, pues, decir que los niños imitan los juegos de los grandes: son los grandes los que plagian, repiten y amplifican, en escala planetaria, los juegos de los niños."

Try Condorito

>>24526529
lmao

>>24524904 (OP)
Op try the short stories of Juan Rulfo

>>24526529
BASED

>>24524904 (OP)
>>24525428

You have received insightful recommendations anon, and I'm quite happy for that. One should pursue the same mastery in writing, reading, and speaking a second or third language so I wish you success.

Now, the following list contains shorts stories, which are in fact, a very helpful format to re-read and disect a second language, and the following stories may not be the best ever written, but they accomplish this approach of various styles on writing.

>Continuidad de los parques - Julio Cortázar. (ARG)
Shortest story on the list, about 3-4 paragraphs long, can be perplexing, but just enough to make you re-read all clear actions it contains.
>Chac Mool - Carlos Fuentes (MEX)
Another one filled with very clear actions, thoughts and places, in this short story we venture into supernatural events, it's a short story where you can search all places and signs mentioned a get glimpse of the mexican landscape depicted.
>Baby H. P - Juan José Arreola (MEX)
This short story is written like if it was a televesion ad promoting a new product, so you'll get lots of descriptions of materials, objects and systems, quite a funny one.
>Francisca y la Muerte - Onelio Jorge Cardoso (CUB)
These one is quite tricky, it's aimed at children, but the language gets slightly poetic.
>El eclipse - Augusto Monterroso (HON)
Monterroso is widely known as a writer capable of creating long stories within short ones, this story is a nice example of it, the sentences are different from the first mentioned on the list, less descriptive, but precise.
>El cambiazo - Mario Benedetti (URG)
Probably the short story with more slang on the list, reading it is quite a challenge because at some point the people sing and the vowels are repeated, emulating the sound. The story jumps between tv programs, verses for a song and local protest.
>Semana de colores - Elena Garro (MEX)
Abstract, unsettling and bizarre, this text gets a lot into surreal imagery and into obscure territory, the line between violence and magic is mixed here.

All this short stories were written throught the XX century and should be easy to find in the original spanish.