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Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
The main force that directed the course of Valle-Inclan's
literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the
essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his
part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and
found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his
aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating
his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting
itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded
in La lampara maravillosa. Valle-Inclan parallels the process
of spiritual life substituting the divine intervention
that characterizes the mystical phenomenon with artificial
means, namely, the use of marihuana. The perspective that
he obtains through this process offers a grotesque, radical
vision of Spanish reality; to better reflect this bitter reality, Valle-Inclan created the technique of the Esperpento.
This approach seeks to clarify the confusion among critics
dealing with this writer's contradictory political postures.
literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the
essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his
part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and
found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his
aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating
his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting
itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded
in La lampara maravillosa. Valle-Inclan parallels the process
of spiritual life substituting the divine intervention
that characterizes the mystical phenomenon with artificial
means, namely, the use of marihuana. The perspective that
he obtains through this process offers a grotesque, radical
vision of Spanish reality; to better reflect this bitter reality, Valle-Inclan created the technique of the Esperpento.
This approach seeks to clarify the confusion among critics
dealing with this writer's contradictory political postures.
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