100+ More Reading Recommendations for Spanish Lit Month

Cantar de Mio Cid

OK, since a couple of you have expressed an interest in reading about some of the greatest hits in Spanish-language literature from a more historical perspective than the contemporary one I shared last week, here's one more list for you before my typing arm falls off.  Please note that all titles below are Triple Crown winners: unanimous selections culled from the grad reading lists at Brown, Penn, and Yale respectively (Harvard's list, another fun one, seems to have disappeared from the web since the last time I looked for it, but I think I have a hard copy of it somewhere in case anybody's interested in seeing who the Quadruple Crown winners are--just kidding).  This means that many prohibitive favorites didn't make the final cut because only two of the Spanish departments were willing to vouch for them as either required or recommended reading at this time.  Also note that I had to doctor the period categories in red to account for the differences in how each university treats elastic concepts like "Siglos de Oros" (plural, Brown), "modernidad temprana" ["early modern"] (Penn), "Renaissance and Golden Age" (Yale), etc., and that errors in the publication dates listed are quite likely since the further you go back in time, the more probable it is that you'll encounter discrepancies between the time of writing and the time of publication of a work.  Although I chose not to worry about that for now, one thing I might regret later is leaving off all the criticism works also recommended by the various programs--interesting stuff.  In any event, I hope this list will prove to be a good resource for anybody looking for a Spanish Lit Month read or just looking for some insight into what some of the "must-reads" are for current grad students in Spanish at the three universities in question.  Please let me know if you spot any mistakes I made or know of any translations I missed while transcribing the lists, and I'll update the post accordingly.  One last thing: Thanks to Tom of Wuthering Expectations for reminding me last week that Obooki of Obooki's Obloquy had put out a related post on the Spanish canon way back in January 2008--well worth a look and a full four years earlier than this one!

Medieval Spanish Literature
Anonymous.  Cantar de Mio Cid [The Song of the Cid: A Dual Language Edition with Parallel Text] (c. 1200).
_____.  Libro de Alexandre [Book of Alexander] (c. 1178-c. 1250).
Alfonso X.  Cantigas de Santa María [Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise: A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa María] (c. 1250-c. 1284).
_____.  Estoria de España (c. 1272-c. 1284).
Berceo, Gonzalo de.  Milagros de Nuestra Señora [The Collected Works of Gonzalo de Berceo in English Translation] (c. 1260).
Manrique, Jorge.  "Coplas por la muerte de su padre" [See Edith Grossman's The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance] (c. 1476).
Manuel, Don Juan.  El Conde Lucanor [The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio: A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's El conde Lucanor] (c. 1335).
Martínez de Toledo, Alfonso.  Arcipreste de Talavera o el Corbacho (1438).
Mena, Juan de.  Laberinto de Fortuna (1444).
Rojas, Fernando de.  La Celestina [Celestina] (1499).
Ruiz, Juan.  Libro de buen amor [The Book of Good Love] (c. 1343).
San Pedro, Diego de.  Cárcel de amor (1492).
Tob, Sem.  Proverbios morales (c. 1350).

Siglo de Oro
Anonymous.  Lazarillo de Tormes [The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes] (1554).
Alemán, Mateo. Guzmán de Alfarache [The Rogue: or, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache] (1599 & 1604).
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro.  La vida es sueño [Life's a Dream] (c. 1635).
_____.  El médico de su honra [The Physician of His Honour] (1637).
_____.  El alcalde de Zalamea [Eight Dramas of Calderón] (1651).
_____.  El gran teatro del mundo [Four Great Plays of the Golden Age] (1656).
Cervantes, Miguel de.  Don Quijote [Don Quixote] (1605 & 1615).
_____.  Novelas ejemplares [Exemplary Stories] (1613).
Encina, Juan del.  Representaciones o Teatro completo (c. 1492-c. 1534).
Gracián, Baltasar. Arte y agudeza de ingenio (1648).
_____.  El Criticón (1651-1657).
Herrera, Fernando de.  Poesías (c. 1555-c. 1595).
Juan de la Cruz, San.  Poesías (c. 1563-c. 1591).
León, Fray Luis de.  De los nombres de Cristo [The Names of Christ] (1583-1585).
_____.  Poesías completas (c. 1550-c. 1590).
Molina, Tirso de.  El burlador de Sevilla [The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest] (c. 1630).
Montemayor, Jorge de.  Los siete libros de la Diana [The Diana] (c. 1559).
Moreto, Agustín.  El desdén con el désden (c. 1650).
Quevedo, Francisco de.  La vida del Buscón [Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler] (1626).
_____.  Los sueños [Dreams and Discourses] (1627).
Rodríguez de Montalvo, Garci.  Amadís de Gaula [Amadis of Gaul] (1508).
Rueda, Lope de.  Pasos (c. 1560).
Teresa de Jésus, Santa.  Libro de su vida [The Book of Her Life] (c. 1565).
Valdés, Juan de.  Diálogo de la lengua (1533).
Vega, Garcilaso de la.  Obra poética y textos en prosa or Poesías completas (c. 1520-c. 1536).
Vega, Lope de.  El arte nuevo de hacer comedias (1609).
_____.  Fuenteovejuna [Three Major Plays] (1619).
_____.  El caballero de Olmedo [Three Major Plays] (c. 1620).
_____.  La Dorotea [La Dorotea] (1632).
_____.  El castigo sin venganza [Three Major Plays] (1634).
Vicente, Gil.  Auto de la sibila Casandra [The Sibyl Cassandra: A Christmas Play with the Insanity and Sanctity of Five Centuries Past] (1503).

Modern Spanish Literature (18th, 19th & 20th Centuries)
Alas, Leopoldo ("Clarín").  La Regenta [La Regenta] (1884).
Baroja, Pío.  El árbol de la ciencia [The Tree of Knowledge] (1911).
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo.  Rimas [Collected Poems (Rimas)] (c.1858-c. 1870).
_____.  Leyendas [Legends and Letters] (1871).
Cadalso, José.  Noches lúgubres [Lugubrious Nights: An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Romance] (1789-1790).
Cela, Camilo José.  La familia de Pascual Duarte [The Family of Pascual Duarte] (1942).
_____.  La colmena [The Hive] (1951).
Espronceda, José de.  El estudiante de Salamanca [The Student of Salamanca] (1837-1840).
Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo.  "Amor de la patria y pasión nacional" & "El no sé qué" & "Voz del pueblo" (c.1750).
García Lorca, Federico.  Romancero gitano [Gypsy Ballads] (1928).
_____.  La casa de Bernarda Alba [The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain] (1936).
Goytisolo, Juan.  La reivindicaión del conde Don Julián [Count Julian] (1970).
Guillén, Jorge.  Cántico (1928-1950).
Martin-Santos, Luis.  Tiempo de silencio [Time of Silence] (1962).
Ortega y Gasset, José.  La deshumanización del arte [The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature] (1925).
Pérez Galdós, Benito.  La desheredada [The Disinherited] (1881).
_____.  Fortunata y Jacinta [Fortunata and Jacinta] (1887).
Rivas, Ángel de Saavedra, duque de.  Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino [Don Álvaro, or, The Force of Fate: A Play by Ángel de  Saavedra, Duke of Rivas] (1835).
Sánchez Ferlosio, R.  El jarama [The River] (1955).
Sender, Ramón.  Réquiem por un campesino español [Requiem for a Spanish Peasant] (1960).
Torres Villarroel, Diego de.  Vida [The Remarkable Life of Don Diego: Being the Autobiography of Diego de Torres Villarroel] (1743).
Unamuno, Miguel de.  Del sentimiento trágico de la vida [The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations] (1912).
_____.  Niebla [Mist] (1914).
_____.  San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1930).
Zorilla, Jose de.  Don Juan Tenorio [A Translation of José Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio] (1844).

Colonial Latin American Literature
Balbuena, Bernardo de.  La grandeza mexicana (1604).
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez.  Naufragios [Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition] (1542 & 1555).
Carrió de la Vandera, Alonso.  El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (c. 1775).
Casas, Bartolomé de las.  Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias [A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies] (1552).
Cortés, Hernán.  Cartas de relación [Letters from Mexico] (1519-1526).
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal.  Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España [The Conquest of New Spain] (1551-1584).
Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de.  La Araucana [The Araucaniad] (1569-1589).
Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca.  Comentarios reales de los Incas [Royal Commentaries of the Incas] (c. 1617).
Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe.  El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas Up to 1615] (c. 1615).
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor.  Obras completas (c. 1671-c. 1691).
_____.  "Respuesta de la poetisa a la muy ilustre Sor Filotea de la Cruz" (1691).
Pané, Fray Ramón.  Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios [An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: Chronicles of the New World Encounter] (c. 1498).
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de.  Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez [The Misadventures of Alonso Ramírez] (1690).

Modern Latin American Literature (18th, 19th & 20th Centuries)
Arguedas, José María.  Los ríos profundos [Deep Rivers] (1958).
Azuela, Mariano.  Los de abajo [The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution] (1915).
Bello, Andrés.  "Oda a la agricultura de la zona tórrida" (1826).
Bolívar, Simón.  "Carta de Jamaica" ["Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of This Island"] (1815).
Borges, Jorge Luis.  Ficciones [Collected Fictions] (1944).
_____.  El aleph [Collected Fictions] (1949).
_____.  Otras inquisiciones [Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952] (1952).
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo.  Tres tristes tigres [Three Trapped Tigers] (1967).
Carpentier, Alejo.  El reino de este mundo [The Kingdom of This World] (1949).
Cortázar, Julio.  Rayuela [Hopscotch] (1963).
Darío, Rúben.  Cantos de vida y esperanza [Songs of Life and Hope] (1905).
Donoso, José.  El obsceno pájaro de la noche [The Obscene Bird of Night] (1970).
Echeverría, Esteban.  "El matadero" [See Roberto González Echevarría's The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories] (1839).
Fuentes, Carlos.  La muerte de Artemio Cruz [The Death of Artemio Cruz] (1962).
Gallegos, Rómulo.  Doña Bárbara [Doña Barbara] (1929).
García Márquez, Gabriel.  Cien años de la soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude] (1967).
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis.  Sab (1841).
Guillén, Nicolás.  Motivos del son (1930) or El son entero (1947).
Heredia, José María.  Poesías (c. 1832) or Poesías completas (c. 1839).
Hernández, José.  Martín Fierro [The Gaucho Martín Fierro] (1872-1879).
Isaacs, Jorge.  María [María, a South American Romance] (c. 1867).
Lezama Lima, José.  La expresión americana y otros ensayos (1969).
Mariátegui, José Carlos.  Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana [Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality] (1928).
Neruda, Pablo.  Residencia en la tierra [Residence on Earth] (1933-1947).
Parra, Nicanor.  Poemas y antipoemas [Poems & Antipoems] (1954).
Parra, Teresa de la.  Memorias de Mamá Blanca [Mama Blanca's Memoirs] (1929).
Paz, Octavio.  El laberinto de la soledad [The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings] (1950).
Picón Salas, Mariano.  De la conquista a la independencia [A Cultural History of Spanish America: From Conquest to Independence] (1944).
Rodó, José Enrique.  Ariel (1900).
Rulfo, Juan.  El llano en llamas [The Burning Plain and Other Stories] (1953).
_____.  Pedro Páramo [Pedro Páramo] (1955).
Sánchez, Luis Rafael.  La guaracha del Macho Camacho [Macho Camacho's Beat] (1976).
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino.  Facundo [Facundo: or, Civilization and Barbarism] (1845).
Usigli, Rodolfo.  El gesticulador [The Impostor: A Play for Demagogues] (1938).