The valley of the fallen =
Subtitle: El valle de los caídos
By: Carlos Rojas ; translated from the spanish by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936- translator; Rojas, Carlos, 1928-
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780300217964
Subjects: Spanish fiction; Translations into English; Fiction; Spanish Historical fiction; History
Work titles: Valle de los caídos
Description: "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."--
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: El valle de los caídos.