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Martes de Carnaval: Las Galas del Difunto; Los Cuernos de Don Friolera; La Hija del Capitán.

Colección Austral 1337

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1930

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Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

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Ramón del Valle-Inclán 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.

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130 reviews16 followers
October 11, 2022
La primera vez que oí lo de Don Friolera fue en la zona universitaria de Madrid, “vamos al Donfri”. Era un bareto que frecuentaban los universitarios, pues muchos hacían novillos y terminaban allí. Desde entonces me guardé este título.

El Don Friolera de Valle -Inclán es una obra dedicada a esa lastimera pero graciosa figura del cornudo. Esta tragedia tan entretenida de leer ya fue tratada por Quevedo con frecuencia, lo que conecta a Valle-Inclán con el siglo de oro.
Esta tragicomedia nos hace sentirnos mal por pasarlo bien.

Valle-Inclán crea siempre un lenguaje que embelesa. Es desde luego un artista, aunque esta obra sea menor.
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189 reviews
June 14, 2024
mi favorita la segunda (es la única que entendí 100%)
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14 reviews1 follower
June 3, 2025
Valle-Inclán eres todo para mí, pim pam pum
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49 reviews
June 6, 2025
"Martes de carnaval", y en concreto "Los cuernos de don Friolera", supone una de las cumbres más lúcidas y demoledoras de la estética valleinclanesca. La genialidad de Valle-Inclán no radica únicamente en la construcción de ese espejo cóncavo que deforma la realidad, sino en su magistral capacidad de inmersión alienante. El texto logra una alquimia narrativa fascinante: arrastra al lector al corazón de una sociedad grotesca hasta anular las distancias, logrando que nos reconozcamos, de manera casi imperceptible, como cómplices y personajes de ese mismo esperpento que se está fustigando. Una obra maestra del desgarro crítico que desarma al lector a través de una farsa profundamente lúcida.
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