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MIDNIGHT IBD

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
09 / 2025
9781839546051
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Sinopsis

Although 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.Midnight 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, outside of time and space. Midnight?s distillation of experience brings into sharp relief the horrors of war and the suffering of those caught up in it.Valle-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.

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26,99