Spring Sonata
by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
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Inspired by the similarities between human existence and the seasons, Ramón del Valle-Inclán created 4 modernist stories known as the Sonatas tetralogy. From that highly regarded series comes this 1904 masterpiece. It chronicles a Don Juan's passion for a beguiling young aristocratic woman who intends to take the veil. The only available dual-language edition.Tags
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La primera de las "sonatas" que componen las "Memorias amables del marqués de Bradomín", aunque fue la tercera en publicarse. Valle hace un ejercicio de recreación e idealización de un tiempo lejano (el renacimiento italiano) interpretándolo a su propio estilo, sin preocuparse demasiado de su versimilitud y menos de su historicidad. Simplemente "mola" así. Me recuerda a la forma que tendría, años más tarde, el diseñador Rodríguez Ojeda de imaginar los soldados romanos para el traje de los "armaos" de la Macarena, hoy tan populares. Bueno, pues algo así pero en literatura.
Todo son suspiros, recatos más o menos falsos, palacios fastuosos, complots en la oscuridad, sillas de posta, asaltos amorosos en los jardines, bellísimas show more doncellas que van a ser monjas, malvados e hipócritas mayordomos, altivas princesas, frailes misteriosos y hasta una bruja. Y, sobre todo ello, un cierto halo a la vez maldito y atractivo alrededor del protagonista que provoca un desenlace sorprendente (al menos para mí) y algo incoherente, pero bellísimo. Todo es aquí estética. show less
Todo son suspiros, recatos más o menos falsos, palacios fastuosos, complots en la oscuridad, sillas de posta, asaltos amorosos en los jardines, bellísimas show more doncellas que van a ser monjas, malvados e hipócritas mayordomos, altivas princesas, frailes misteriosos y hasta una bruja. Y, sobre todo ello, un cierto halo a la vez maldito y atractivo alrededor del protagonista que provoca un desenlace sorprendente (al menos para mí) y algo incoherente, pero bellísimo. Todo es aquí estética. show less
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Galician by birth, Madrilenian by adoption, Ramon del Valle-Inclan was Spain's foremost prose stylist of the twentieth century. He is remembered in Spain almost as much for the colorful Bohemian persona he adopted and made famous as for his writings. Valle-Inclan began his career as a decadent aesthete, much influenced by the fin-de-siecle French show more symbolists. The four novels he entitled Sonatas (1902--05)---one for each season of the year---recount four erotic episodes in the life of the Marques de Bradomin, an "ugly, Catholic, sentimental Don Juan." His dramatic trilogy of "barbaric comedies"---Heraldic Eagle (1907), Romance of Wolves (1908), and Silver Face (1922)---powerfully evokes the primitive grandeur of his native Galicia. Long considered unperformable on account of their violence and obscenity, these plays have enjoyed great critical and popular success since Franco's death. The Lamp of Marvels (1916) contains Valle's aesthetic philosophy. The last stage of Valle's career was marked by the creation of a new type of novel he christened the esperpento: a stylized, dehumanized, highly objective satiric form well suited to express the crisis in values occurring all over Europe immediately after World War I. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Spring Sonata
- Original title
- Sonata de primavera. Memorias del Marqués de Bradomín
- Original publication date
- 1904
- Original language*
- Español
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 863.62 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures Spanish fiction 20th Century 1900-1945
- LCC
- PQ6641 .A47 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Individual authors, 1868-1960
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