Valle de los caídos. English

The valley of the fallen / Carlos Rojas ; translated from the spanish by Edith Grossman.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

viii, 296 pages ; 21 cm.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

English

July 23, 2018