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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
August 14, 2012
Pages
200
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590174982
ISBN-10
1590174984
Dimensions
0.75 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.23 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
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The Glory of the Empire | I, the Supreme | Hadrian the Seventh | The President | In the Time of the Butterflies | The Feast of the Goat | Autobiography of a Corpse | Reasons of State | The Damned
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: An NYRB Classics Original
The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for GarcÃa Márquezâs The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastosâs I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, 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 Roachâs Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. MeanÂwhile, 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 dictatorâs citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace.
          Peter Bushâs new translation of Valle-Inclánâs seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as Goyaâs in his The Disasters of War.
The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for GarcÃa Márquezâs The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastosâs I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, 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 Roachâs Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. MeanÂwhile, 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 dictatorâs citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace.
          Peter Bushâs new translation of Valle-Inclánâs seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as Goyaâs in his The Disasters of War.
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from New York Review of Books (August 14, 2012)
9781590174982 | details & prices | 200 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.23 lbs | List price $14.95
About: An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for GarcÃa Márquezâs The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastosâs I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster.
About: An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for GarcÃa Márquezâs The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastosâs I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster.
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