Spring & Summer Sonatas

Author: Ramon del Valle-Inclan

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa   Cover illustration: Lise Weisgerber  

Reviews

Each of the sonatas lavishly evoke a setting and climate as objective correlative for a woman, and an affair. Valle-Inclan's Don Juan is a self-conscious, self-mocking dandy; like all the best lovers, he is haunted and sad.

Katy Emck in The Times Literary Supplement