The Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin: Four Sonatas
work by Valle-Inclán
Also known as: “Sonatas”
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discussed in biography
- In Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
…four novelettes known as the Sonatas (1902–05), feature a beautifully evocative prose and a tone of refined and elegant decadence. They narrate the seductions and other doings of a Galician womanizer who is partly an autobiographical figure. In his subsequent works Valle-Inclán developed a style that is rich in both…
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Spanish literature
- In Spanish literature: Novels and essays
The Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin: Four Sonatas). Each represents a season (of the year and of human life) corresponding to the youth, plenitude, maturity, and old age of the narrator, a decadent Don Juan; intertextual allusions, nostalgia for an idealized past, aristocratic…
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