The Valley of the FallenAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 20 March 2018
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Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojasâ?Ts imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one of Spainâ?Ts most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years of the nineteenth century, when Francisco de Goya was at the height of his artistic career, and the final years of Generalissimo Francoâ?Ts Fascist rule in the 1970s. 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 Spainâ?Ts War of Independence. Goya obliges the kingâ?Ts 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 Francoâ?Ts body lying in state and experiences again a dark and monstrous despair. A Rojas's work is a dazzling tour de force, a unique combination of narrative invention and art historical expertise that only he could have brought to the page.
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