The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded six times to Spanish-American authors, different from each other in terms of themes and forms of expression: in 1945 to the Chilean Gabriela Mistral, the poetess of pain and the mystery of life; in 1967 to Miguel Ángel Asturias author of "texts deeply rooted in national individuality and indigenous traditions" of Guatemala; in 1971 to Pablo Neruda, singer of love and freedom; in 1982 to Gabriel García Márquez the undisputed symbol of the Latin American boom, master of magical realism; in 1990 to Octavio Paz poet, philosopher and essayist, interpreter of Mexican identity and society and finally in 2010 to Mario Vargas Llosa, multifaceted narrator, capable of creating a personal "image of the resistance, revolt and defeat of the individual".
The study of their works will allow to know at the same time the historical-cultural aspects and the different literary forms developed in their respective countries.
The course will be supplemented by the viewing of documentaries and film adaptations of some literary works.

Reading (integral or partial according to specific indications) and analysis of the following texts (in any edition in the original language)

- Gabriela Mistral, Artículos e Poesías
- Miguel Angel Asturias, Week-end en Guatemala (selection)
- Pablo Neruda, Poesías (selection)
- Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene a quien le escriba - La hojarasca (selection)
- Octavio Paz, Poesías (selection)
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Pantaleón y las visitadoras

first year:
- R.M. Grillo, Cinquecento anni di civiltà e barbarie, Oèdipus, Salerno 2021
- R.M. Grillo (a cura di), La letteratura ispanoamericana e il Nobel, Oèdipus, Salerno 2016 (selezione)

Second year:
- R.M. Grillo (a cura di), La letteratura ispanoamericana e il Nobel, Oèdipus, Salerno 2016 (selezione)
- R.M. Grillo, Vivere per testimoniare, testimoniare per vivere, Officine, Salerno 2022