Tirano Banderas: Novela de Tierra Caliente (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Ramon Maria del Valle Inclan (Author), Ramon del Valle Inclan (Author)

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• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Ediciones Colihue SRL (January 1, 1987)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9505810768
• ISBN-13: 978-9505810765
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The inauguration of a genre, big time., April 2, 2002

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Guillermo Maynez (Mexico, Distrito Federal Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tirano Banderas: Novela de Tierra Caliente (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

With this novel published in 1926, Valle-Inclan inaugurated a sub-genre that has persisted to this day, with the publication in 1999 of "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa: the dicator novel, brilliantly excercised by Garcia-Marquez, Roa Bastos and Asturias.

In this great tale, the author creates a fictional Latin American country, which really sums up the basic representative traits of these lands: a dictator, the ruling elite, the revolutionaries, the foreign diplomats, etc. It's all color, fiesta, cruelty, corruption, cowardice and exploitiation.

The plot is simple: surrounded by revolutionary forces, the despotic dictator makes a big mistake whcih prompts his compadre Colonel de la Gándara to flee and join the rebels. This event unties a chain of investigations, betrayals, prosecutions and war, all in the midst of the annual festivities of the country.

Several characters are memorable: the dictator himself, Colonel de la Gándara, Nachito Veguillas and, above all, the corrupt, decadent, drug-addict, homosexual and transvestite Ambassador of Spain.

Written in an extremely baroque but nonetheless readable language, Tirano Banderas is a great Spanish novel which can be read and enjoyed today. Hint: don't miss the final two chapters, they're great.