Reading path
The Magic and the Real
A tradition where the impossible feels inevitable and the real feels like a dream. The boundary between what happened and what could never happen dissolves completely, and the challenge is telling the difference. Rooted in Latin America but reaching far beyond it, this is literature that insists the world is more enchanted, more frightening, and more alive than rationalism would have us believe.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
- 2. Posthumous Memoirs of Brás CubasMachado de Assis, 1881
- 3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairPablo Neruda, 1924
- 4. The Library of BabelJorge Luis Borges, 1941
- 5. The AlephJorge Luis Borges, 1945
- 6. Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo, 1955
- 7. One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez, 1967
- 8. The Passion According to G.H.Clarice Lispector, 1964
- 9. HopscotchJulio Cortázar, 1963
- 10. Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino, 1972
- 11. Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez, 1985
- 12. The Savage DetectivesRoberto Bolaño, 1998
- 13. 2666Roberto Bolaño, 2004
- 14. The Baron in the TreesItalo Calvino, 1957
- 15. The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsJoao Guimaraes Rosa, 1956
- 16. The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende, 1982
- 17. The Famished RoadBen Okri, 1991
- 18. MacunaímaMario de Andrade, 1928
- 19. CarpentariaAlexis Wright, 2006
- 20. CloudstreetTim Winton, 1991
- 21. Explosion In A CathedralAlejo Carpentier, 1962
- 22. A Brief LifeJuan Carlos Onetti, 1950
- 23. Brown Girl In The RingNalo Hopkinson, 1998