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Tyrant Banderas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590174982)
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xAn NYRB Classics Original The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garc a M rquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ram n del Valle-Incl n, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th-century serial fiction to paint an astonishing picture of a ruthless tyrant facing armed revolt. It is the Day of the Dead, and revolution has broken out, creating mayhem from Baby Roach's Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maip . Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. Meanwhile, his secret police lock up, torture, and execute students and Indian peasants in a sinister castle by the sea where even the sharks have tired of a diet of revolutionary flesh. Then the opposition strikes back. They besiege the dictator's citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace. Peter Bush's new translation of Valle-Incl n's seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as Goya's in his The Disasters of War.
Author: Ramon del Valle-Inclan
ISBN-10: 1590174984
ISBN-13: 9781590174982
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.10w x 0.46d
Author: Ramon del Valle-Inclan
ISBN-10: 1590174984
ISBN-13: 9781590174982
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.10w x 0.46d
By Ramon del Valle-Inclan
xRamón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father's wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but
after his father's death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest novel of Spanish modernismo, as well as for his extensive and important career in the theater, not only as a major twentieth-century playwright but also as a director and actor. He reported from the western front during World War I, and after the war he developed an unsettling new style that he dubbed esperpento--a Spanish word that means both a grotesque, frightening person and a piece of nonsense--and described as a search for "the comic side of the tragedy of life." Partly inspired by his second visit to Mexico in 1920, when the country was in the throes of revolution, Tyrant Banderas is Valle-Inclán's greatest novel and the essence of esperpento. Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who lives in Barcelona. Among his recent translations are Juan Goytisolo's Níjar Country and Teresa Solana's A Shortcut to Paradise. He is currently translating Quim Monzó's A Thousand Morons and Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook (forthcoming from NYRB Classics). Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-born Canadian essayist and novelist. He has written twenty works of criticism, including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (with Gianni Guadalupi), A History of Reading, and The Library at Night; edited more than twenty literary anthologies; and is the author of five novels, including News from a Foreign Country Came, which won the McKitterick Prize in 1992. An Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
after his father's death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest novel of Spanish modernismo, as well as for his extensive and important career in the theater, not only as a major twentieth-century playwright but also as a director and actor. He reported from the western front during World War I, and after the war he developed an unsettling new style that he dubbed esperpento--a Spanish word that means both a grotesque, frightening person and a piece of nonsense--and described as a search for "the comic side of the tragedy of life." Partly inspired by his second visit to Mexico in 1920, when the country was in the throes of revolution, Tyrant Banderas is Valle-Inclán's greatest novel and the essence of esperpento. Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who lives in Barcelona. Among his recent translations are Juan Goytisolo's Níjar Country and Teresa Solana's A Shortcut to Paradise. He is currently translating Quim Monzó's A Thousand Morons and Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook (forthcoming from NYRB Classics). Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-born Canadian essayist and novelist. He has written twenty works of criticism, including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (with Gianni Guadalupi), A History of Reading, and The Library at Night; edited more than twenty literary anthologies; and is the author of five novels, including News from a Foreign Country Came, which won the McKitterick Prize in 1992. An Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), he has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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