Autumn & winter sonatas : the memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín / Ramón del Valle-Inclán ; translated from the Spanish and with an afterword by Margaret Jull Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valle-Inclán, Ramón del, 1866-1936.

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sonata de otoño. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

193 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Autumn and winter sonatas

Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín

Place of Publication:

Sawtry, Cambs : Dedalus ; Monroe, Or. : Distributed in the USA by Subterranean, [1998]

Summary:

Autumn and Winter Sonatas completes the cycle begun with Spring and Summer Sonatas when the Marquis of Bradomin was at the height of his powers. The scene has shifted, however, from verdant Italy and steamy Mexico to rainy Galicia and to wintry Navarre and the court of the pretender Carlos during the final Carlist War. Valle-Inclan's last two Sonatas are decadent in every sense of the word. He interweaves death, sex and religion - Bradomin seducing the pious, protesting Concha even as she is dying and, later, casually making an innocent convent pupil fall in love with him, a young girl who might well be his own daughter - but this Bradomin is now white-haired and fearful that his sexual powers may be waning. The world he inhabits and the beliefs he claims to embrace are also falling away.

Notes:

"Funded by the Arts Council of England."

"First published in Spain in 1902 (Autumn sonata) and 1905 (Winter sonata)"--T.p. verso.

Contains:

Valle-Inclán, Ramón del, 1866-1936. Sonata de invierno. English. 1998.

ISBN:

1873982836

OCLC:

40121759