Esperpento denotes a literary style in Spanish literature first established by Spanish author Ramón María del Valle-Inclán that uses distorted descriptions of reality in order to criticize society. Leading themes include death, the grotesque, and the reduction of human beings to objects (reification). The style is marked by bitter irony. In Lat...
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(from the article `Spanish literature`) ...continued with his violent trilogy (1908–09) on the 19th-century Carlist wars ( Carlism). Valle`s third artistic stage, characterized by his ... Some of Valle-Inclán`s later plays and novels are in the manner he called esperpento (`horrible, nauseating persons, or things`)...
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