Title: The valley of the fallen =
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."--
Subjects: Spanish fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, Spanish Historical fiction, History, Art, modern
Places: Spain
People: Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
Time periods: Ferdinand VII, 1813-1833, 1939-1975