{"product_id":"midnight-ramzen-del-valle-inclzan-9781839546051","title":"Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough highly respected within Spain as an author, public intellectual, and cultural provocateur, Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) is little known outside his native country. This edition will help remedy this by presenting the first English translation of Valle-Inclán's innovative First World War chronicle, accompanied by a critical introduction that situates the author within the central concerns of European modernism. A remarkable innovator, who wrote poetry, novels, drama, essays, and art criticism, Valle-Inclán was a strong influence on a generation of literary and visual artists, and his work is in conversation with the literary experimentation of modernists such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMidnight\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful account of Valle-Inclán's experiences on the Western Front in 1916. From a distant, all-encompassing perspective, what Valle-Inclán refers to as 'astral vision', the Poet who 'deserves to be called Seer' creates out of the devastating fragments that characterize individual experience of war a view of the whole, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eoutside of time and space. \u003cem\u003eMidnight\u003c\/em\u003e's distillation of experience brings into sharp relief the horrors of war and the suffering of those caught up in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValle-Inclán's desire to disengage experience from its fragmentary expression in language, and to observe from a position of cosmic omniscience, along with the theosophical underpinnings of his aesthetics, inspired literary innovations that ensure his place among the foremost modernists of Europe and the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ramón del Valle-Inclán\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839546050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839546051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texts and Translations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.22d","brand":"Ramón del Valle-Inclán","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47453051388159,"sku":"9781839546051","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1633467e-6962-4217-837e-47dacbe4516b.jpg?v=1761931621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/midnight-ramzen-del-valle-inclzan-9781839546051","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}