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Article: Goya en el esperpento de Valle-Inclan.(Review) (book review)
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LUIS LORENZO-RIVERO. Goya en el esperpento de Valle-Inclan. Sada and A Coruna: Edicios do Castro, 1998. 221 pp. illus.
WELL KNOWN FOR HIS SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS through numerous books and essays, to the works of Mariano Jose de Larra and other nineteenthcentury Spanish writers, Luis Lorenzo-Rivero turns here to the relationship between one of Spain's foremost painters and one of its most important writers, thus bridging two centuries of Spanish culture.
The lineage of Valle-Inclan's esperpentos can be traced to the paintings of Hieronimous Bosch (many of which are in the Prado), and to Quevedo, Goya, and Larra. But it is clearly Goya's later works ...