Tyrant Banderas
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品牌: Ramon del Valle-InclanAlberto ManguelPeter Bush
基本信息出版社:NYRB Classics (2012年7月17日)平装:272页正文语种:英语ISBN:1590174984条形码:9781590174982商品重量:367 gASIN:1590174984您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the
avowed inspiration for García Márquez’sThe Autumn of the
Patriarchand Roa Bastos’sI, the Supreme,Tyrant Banderas
is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American
Republic in the grip of a monster. Valle-Inclán, one of the
masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points
of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19thcentury
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 Roach’s Cathouse to the Harris Circus
to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. The tyrant steps forth,
assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and
democratic opposition. Meanwhile, 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 dictator’s citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden,
starving populace.
Peter Bush’s new translation of Valle-Inclán’s seminal novel,
the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic
sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as
Goya’s in hisThe Disasters of War.媒体推荐“Ramón del Valle-Inclán, the most pioneering Spanish dramatist of this century . . . anticipates most of the key movements in modern drama. He is notoriously unclassifiable but was both and Expressionist and an Absurdist before the event. He created a genre he called ‘esperpento’ which broadly means grotesque tragic-comedy, and what is fascinating is that he anticipates Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Arrabal without in any way sacrificing his own radical utopianism. He is one of the seminal figures in modern drama: erotic, anarchic and Galician poet of the grotesque.” —Michael Billington,Guardian
“Because dictators have been a staple of Latin history, they’re a staple of the Latin novel. Spaniard Ramon del Valle-Inclan broke ground in 1926 withTirano Banderas.” —The Miami Herald
“The radical innovation in the theater that came after World War I is known here mainly through the plays of Brecht. In Spain, the prophet of this new movement was Ramón del Valle-Inclán. . . . Written in 1920, ‘Divinas Palabras’ actually precedes Brecht’s agitprop dramas.” —The New York Times
“It is a dark, violent, gorey work whose unbridled lyricism cannot mask its many horrors. . . .Tirano Banderas, which Valle Inclan wrote in his 20s, is Cubist in that its writing is highly fragmented, while its range of deep, intense colours is reminiscent of Goya. But its main characteristic is esperpento, a genre created by Ville-Inclan himself. Esperpento is a mixture of terror and comedy, in which a character from tragedy is reduced to the dimensions of a fairground huckster.Tirano Banderasis a farce written with a poisoned pen.” —Manchester Guardian Weekly
“Tirano Banderaswas the first novel to describe a South American dictator. It was written before other authors, such as Asturias and Garcia Marquez. . . . All the horrible things describe in the novel are still a very real threat in present day Latin America.” —Lautaro Murua, Argentinian actor
