num_pages: 266
description: The central character is Max Estrella, a struggling poet afflicted by blindness due to developing syphilis. The play is a degenerated tragedy (esperpento) focusing on the troubles of the literary and artistic world in Spain under the Restoration. Through Max's poverty and ill fortune, Valle-Inclán portrays how society neglects the creative.English and Spanish.
language: English
title: Luces de Bohemia: Esperpento / Bohemian Lights
titlecomplete: Luces de Bohemia: Esperpento / Bohemian Lights
genres: 20th Century, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, Spain, Spanish Literature, High School, Fiction, Theatre
ratings_count: 10118
publisher: Edinburgh University Press