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A meia-noite. Visão estelar de um momento de guerra

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Pertencente a uma etapa de mudança que marcou definitivamente o rumo artístico da obra de Ramón del Valle-Inclán, este A meia-noite. Visão estelar de um momento de guerra (1917) é um relato inspirado na sua experiência real quando em 1916, em plena Primeira Guerra Mundial e devido às suas declaradas simpatias aliadófilas, foi convidado pelo Governo francês a visitar a frente do Somme, com o compromisso de publicar um livro sobre a guerra.

Livro durante muito tempo relegado dentro da sua obra e mal estudado, mas de grande valor literário, Valle-Inclán oferece aqui uma visão total e inovadora da guerra numa narrativa radicalmente moderna, que representa por sua vez um ponto de inflexão na sua trajetória, situando-o na senda da renovação dos géneros literários no século XX.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

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Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

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Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest novel of Spanish modernismo, as well as for his extensive and important career in the theater, not only as a major twentieth-century playwright but also as a director and actor. He reported from the western front during World War I, and after the war he developed an unsettling new style that he dubbed esperpento—a Spanish word that means both a grotesque, frightening person and a piece of nonsense—and described as a search for “the comic side of the tragedy of life.” Partly inspired by his second visit to Mexico in 1920, when the country was in the throes of revolution, Tyrant Banderas is Valle-Inclán’s greatest novel and the essence of esperpento.

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Profile Image for Marta Franch Camino.
42 reviews1 follower
May 11, 2025
Al contrario que en las crónicas (como las de Manuel Chaves), el autor intenta transmitir una idea general de lo que fue la Guerra de trincheras entre los aliados y los alemanes, alejándose en la medida de lo posible de casos e historias concretas.
Describe, de manera muy estética el horror y el sufrimiento pero también la pasión y la resistencia, que habitaban en las líneas de defensa.
Me ha gustado mucho más de lo que pensé que me gustaría.
Profile Image for Paulo Teixeira.
920 reviews14 followers
December 16, 2019
(PT) O relato de um escritor, o espanhol Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, em 1916, no meio da I Guerra Mundial, em toda a sua crueza: as batalhas, os mortos, os feridos, os camponeses, os generais, os soldados. Tudo sem floreados, apenas o sabor da terra revolvida, o odor a cadáver, o cheiro a pólvora, as feridas em todo o seu esplendor, a paisagem desolada.
Profile Image for Juan Nadal.
36 reviews2 followers
November 22, 2024
Narración cruda de lo que era una noche y un amanecer durante la 1GM, contado desde su presente (1917). Muy interesantes ciertas reflexiones que chocan con nuestros días y la historia posterior a la 1GM.
2 reviews1 follower
March 30, 2022
Una manera diferente de contar la guerra. Me pareció original la distancia de acontecimientos terribles que el autor logra en algunos relatos.
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