Abstract:This paper examines the social and moral content of Valle-Inclán's La Marquesa Rosalinda (1912) as influenced by Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities) and Nietszche's philosophical treaties on marriage and morality in general. The paper argues that this highly stylized play, paradigmatic of the modernista aesthetics prevalent in turn-of-the-century Spain, contains also a subtle and caustic criticism of conventional values and institutions that invite the reader to re-evaluate traditional app… Show more
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