Another sentence from Tyrant Banderas
Sensually decadent pessimism, nourished by literary airs, had turned up a new shade of rouge to revivify the diplomatic roué’s psychological state.
—from Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Tyrant Banderas, translated by Peter Bush. If you read this blog, you probably realize we love the language of this book, considered one of the finest novels of Spanish modernismo and dubbed esperpento by the author.
