This was getting a bit out of hand with people sending asks instead of commenting, so I compiled everything that was sent to me under the cut. The rest of the recommendations are in the comments as usual. Thank you all for the recs!
shabby-alonso asked:
for classic novels, i would recommend Dream of Red Chamber, i think it might align with your tastes well!
Anonymous asked:
have you read notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin? its a taiwanese classic
shmuel-ben-sarah-kcd2 asked:
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by I. B. Singer
More queer Yiddish literature, I do love the movie too but the movie doesn’t fully convey the utter transness of Anshel.
Anonymous asked:
For Argentinian classics I'd recommend Jorge Luis Borges! I recently finished one of his most well known collection "Ficciones" and enjoyed it :)
Anonymous asked:
have you gotten to read brazilian classic lit yet? The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis is one that defined our literature. i recommend The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa as well.
jarenka asked:
I recommend My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola for Nigerian lit. Utterly bizarre prose, 12/10.
kotitontunmanaaja asked:
Sonewhat western book rec depending on your definition, but 'My Cat Yugoslavia' is definitely a modern Finnish classic by Finnish Kosovan author Pajtim Statovci - queer themes, some nice surreal imagery with and a nice layered structure of dual timelines in one family, questions about belonging, intergenerational trauma and refugee life and such. One of the books that got me reading again after a long time!
fatalwa asked:
For book recs - I will double the author and the name in the original Ukrainian so you would have better chances of finding them:
• The Yellow Prince (Жовтий князь) by Vasyl Barka (Василь Барка)
• Do oxen low when mangers are full? (Чи ревуть воли як ясла повні?) by Ivan Bilyk and Panas Myrnyi (Іван Білик, Панас Мирний)
• Clouds (Хмари) by Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi (Іван Нечуй-Левицький)
• Я (Романтика) / I (Romantic) by Mykola Khvylovyi (Микола Хвильовий)
• Enchanted Desna (Зачарована Десна) by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Олександр Довженко)
I don't really know what kind of literature you prefer so I decided to give 5 different recommendations for you to choose from.
Anonymous asked:
Since you like Hesse, I'd definitely recommend Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Hungarian classic)
Anonymous asked:
Since someone already mentioned Machado de Assis, i'll recommend then Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha, i have never read it fully but it is sure considered a brazilian classic
inferubim asked:
Check out "Blindness", by Portuguese author José Saramago!
Anonymous asked:
Brazilian here! About reading a classic from every country, I'd heavily recommend Alexandre e Outros Heróis by Graciliano Ramos!
It's one of his lesser known books but it is excellent. He is one of the best writers in the history of my country. It's also, in my opinion, his best book!
the devils by dostoesvky — INSANE characters with homoerotic subtext and crazy plot;
the idiot (also by him) — the gentlest character in the entirety of russian lit, the book kinda reads as "what if i put christ in modern world and made him fall for a tortured fantastic woman" (and she's one of the most fascinating female characters in RL) + you might be more interested in it because there's very strong visual imagery (eg dostoesvky was obsessed with the "dead christ" by holbein and it manifests in the text);
judas iscariot by leonid andreev — ALSO homoerotic subtext + such an interesting and fresh portrayal of jesus; god it's so good!!
the portrait by gogol — kinda wilde's the picture of dorian gray before dorian gray. genuinely reads as if gogol PAINTS the text (he was also a painter himself). the story of an artist, insanity and art. a fascinating read!
(via @hellamorte)
