Valle-Inclán's Literary Stages, Works, and Themes

Ramón María de Valle-Inclán: Literary Analysis

Ramón María de Valle-Inclán's literary output is usually divided into two stages:

1. The modernist sense, aristocratic conception paradigm of English Parnassian of "Art for Art's sake."
2. The *noventayochistas* and grotesque (for his critical spirit and patriotic themes).

Modernist Works: Sonatas

The trilogy of novels of the Carlist War is formed by The Crusaders in the Cause, The Glow of the Fire, and Bigwigs of the Past (+ modernist features grotesque).

*Noventayochistas* Works

Tirano Banderas, a historical novel about the fall of a Hispanic dictator. The Iberian Ring, an incomplete trilogy, a historical theme.

Sonatas

A major constituent of his novels is *Sonatas*, containing the alleged memories of the old Marquis of Bradomín, who lives a series of love affairs (located in Galicia, Italy, or Mexico).

• Autumn Sonata (1902): All are modernist features in this work.
• Summer Sonata (1903)
• Spring Sonata (1904)
• Winter Sonata (1905)

The dominant theme is love: human love, brotherly love, with a sinful background, which is not lacking in homosexuality and incest. In parallel, death and religion become relevant.

Intrahistory

It is a predominant theme of the author Unamuno, which tells the story of an anonymous man and everyday life.

Alarmism

A current initiated by the novel by Camilo José Cela, with the play, *The Family of Pascual Duarte* (1942) that represents the recovery of the narrative genre.

Magical Realism

It's one of the new elements added by the novelists in the 60s, which integrates the fantastic and the real.

Nivola

The neologism created by Miguel de Unamuno to refer to their own creations of narrative fiction, to represent its distance from the dominant realist novel in the late nineteenth century. The term *Nivola* appears for the first time in the works of Miguel de Unamuno, *Niebla*.

Periphrasis

1. He shall be grammaticalized: its meaning is gone whole or in part in I have to go, the verb to have does not imply possession.
2. The second word in any case can be a complement to the first: I come, (paraphrase) come is not the CD I both work exactly like I've been or am loved, but in desire to eat (compound sentence) eating is the CD of another verb: I wish. In the latter case, we have a subordinate clause depending on CD.