Aside from a few anons most people on /lit/ haven't read latin american literature and activly claim it's shit, which to be fair when people push cheap sensationalists like Mr Marquez over here and Jorge Amado up on a pedastal I can't blame them. Almost nothing good has come out of this continent since the 1950s and it's mostly communism's fault, I say this as a crypto-communist. Writers got too focused on talking about social issues that it swallowed up self introspection and very very veryyyyyyy few people have gotten past that into a more nuanced view of humanity, Lispector per say. There are plenty of great latam poets and writers specially those who have that grimy third worlder type depressive sensitivity seen in eastern european and post WW2 japanese writers. It also suffers from having too much of a national focus seen even on the early romantics of this continent and thier obsession with national identity, anyone from around the world can read White Nights and understand it without further context on russian history or cultural background, while that's not true for every work by Dostoevsky it sure applies to most of it and it'sone of the reasons why it's so popular and resonates so much. You can't have that with a lot of latam literature
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If you had mentioned french, italian or even german literature I would be inclined to agree but cmon dude we all know the english literary tradition is a meme.
