The valley of the fallen = El valle de los caídos /
"Rojas re-creates the nineteenth-century corridors of power and portrays the relationship between Goya and King Fernando VII, a despot bent on establishing a cruel regime after Spain’s War of Independence. Goya obliges the king’s request for a portrait, but his depiction not only fails to flatt...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale Univ Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Summary: | "Rojas re-creates the nineteenth-century corridors of power and portrays the relationship between Goya and King Fernando VII, a despot bent on establishing a cruel regime after Spain’s War of Independence. Goya obliges the king’s request for a portrait, but his depiction not only fails to flatter but reflects a terrible darkness and grotesqueness. More than a century later, transcending conventional time, Goya observes Franco’s body lying in state and experiences again a dark and monstrous despair."-- |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 296 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300217964 030021796X |