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The Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin: Four Sonatas
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The Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin: Four Sonatas

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Also known as: “Sonatas”
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The Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin: Four Sonatas is a collection of four novelettes by Spanish writer Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, published between 1902 and 1905. These works are characterized by their beautiful prose and a tone of refined decadence.1

The stories narrate the romantic and amorous exploits of the Marquis de Bradomin, a Galician womanizer who serves as a partly autobiographical figure for Valle-Inclán. Each of the four sonatas corresponds to a season of the year and a stage of human life: youth, plenitude, maturity, and old age. The collection is noted for its evocative language, aristocratic posturing, and underlying humor and parody. It is considered an early example of Valle-Inclán's Modernista style.12

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  1. Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
  2. Spanish literature - Novels and essays

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