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Valle-Inclan Plays: 1 - (World Classics) by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (Paperback)
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- One of the most significant playwrights and novelists of the early twentieth century This volume of translations contains Divine Words, a play that draws on pagan, Celtic traditions of the playwright's native Galicia and the repressive Catholicism of Spain to present a distorted picture of rustic life at its cruellest and most hypocritical; Bohemian Lights, the play which first expounded Valle-Inclan's theory of the grotesque (esperpento) and Silver Face, the first in the trilogy of Savage Plays, distinguished by a similar sense of anarchy and amorality.
- Author(s): Ramón del Valle-Inclán
- 320 Pages
- Drama, European
- Series Name: World Classics
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The three plays included in this volume are presented in lively translations.Book Synopsis
One of the most significant playwrights and novelists of the early twentieth century
This volume of translations contains Divine Words, a play that draws on pagan, Celtic traditions of the playwright's native Galicia and the repressive Catholicism of Spain to present a distorted picture of rustic life at its cruellest and most hypocritical; Bohemian Lights, the play which first expounded Valle-Inclan's theory of the grotesque (esperpento) and Silver Face, the first in the trilogy of Savage Plays, distinguished by a similar sense of anarchy and amorality."Ramon del Valle Inclan (1866-1936), the most pioneering Spanish dramatist of this century... anticipates most of the key movements in modern drama. He is notoriously unclassifiable but was both an Expressionist and an Absurdist before the event. He created a genre he called 'esperpento' which broadly means grotesque tragi-comedy, and what is fascinating is that he anticipates Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Arrabal without in any way sacrificing his own radical utopianism. He is one of the seminal figures in modern drama: erotic, anarchic and a Galician poet of the grotesque." (Michael Billingon, Guardian)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Series Title: World Classics
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: European
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Theme: Spanish & Portuguese
Format: Paperback
Author: Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Language: English
Street Date: March 11, 1993
TCIN: 90809079
UPC: 9780413670908
Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-5966
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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