Yet he impressed those who knew him well as a kind, shy man. With his high-pitched voice and a lisp, he monopolized attention, making up stories about himself or others and reacting violently to interruptions. Occasionally he lost his temper, but never his arrogant attitude. People would stare and sometimes make fun of him. He wore large tortoise-shell-rimmed glasses and very loose clothing, like a frock coat. He changed his appearance substantially, letting his beard and hair grow. His behavior at the time showed contempt for the rational world of the bourgeoisie. He resided in old guest houses and practically never left the cafés, going out at night and sleeping during the day. When he returned to Spain a year later, he lived a bohemian life in Madrid. In 1892, before finishing his studies in law, Valle-lnclán moved to Mexico. Spanish writer Ramón Maria del Valle-lnclán was born in Villanueva de Arosa, in the northeastern region of Galicia in 1868, the same year that a liberal military rebellion overthrew Queen Isabel II. In the process, he encounters injustice, affront, and misery, his story becoming a grotesque parable of the impossibility of living in a deformed, oppressive, and absurd Spain.Įvents in History at the Time of the Play Max Estrella, a poor, blind, has-been poet, wanders through Madrid on the last night of his life. A Play set in post- World War I Madrid published in 1920 in the literary magazine España in Spanish (as Luces de bohemia) in 1924 in English in 1969.
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