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During the 1980s, Spanish narrative began appearing regularly on best seller lists for the first time since the pre-war era and many of this new generation became literary and cultural celebrities, living off their work as writers with all its blessing and curses, including the obligation to publish or perish.
Conceptismo was a Baroque poetic school in the Spanish literature, a similar to the Marinism. [16] [17] Major figures include Francisco de Quevedo and Baltasar Gracián. Culteranismo was another Spanish Baroque movement, in contrast to Conceptismo, characterized by an ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a highly latinal syntax.
This is a list of European literatures. The literatures of Europe are compiled in many languages ; among the most important of the modern written works are those in English , French , Spanish , Dutch , Polish , Portuguese , German , Italian , Modern Greek , Czech , Russian , Macedonian , the Scandinavian languages, Gaelic and Turkish .
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .
Spanish oral literature was doubtless in existence before Spanish texts were written. This is shown by the fact that different authors in the second half of the 11th century could include, at the end of poems written in Arabic or Hebrew , closing verses that, in many cases, were examples of traditional lyric in a Romance language, often ...
Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature 1956, "For his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity." Was the last survivor of Generation of 1898. During the mid-20th century, works steadily moved back to literary and political aspects. [12] Gabriela Mistral; Nicanor Parra
From 1480, there were printers active in Spain [1] The Spanish literary works of greatest prominence were published or translated in Italy, the center of early printing. [2] This was the case with Amadís de Gaula , The Celestina , Jail of Love , the poetic compositions of Jorge Manrique , Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana ...
Works from don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, 1699. Spanish Baroque literature is the literature written in Spain during the Baroque, which occurred during the 17th century in which prose writers such as Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo, playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, or the poetic production of the aforementioned ...