Spanish literature
literature written in the Spanish language from Spain
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Spanish literature refers to books, plays, and poems written in the Spanish language by authors from Spain. It matters because it represents the creative and intellectual heritage of Spanish culture, offering insights into the country's history, values, and ways of thinking across centuries.
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Cervantes's Don Quixote is considered the most emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature and a founding classic of Western literature.
Spanish literature is literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan literature, Galician intersects as well with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian Peninsula. The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).