고려대학교

초록/요약

Valle-Inclán is one of Spain’s most representative playwriters in the early 20th century. He produced a great sensation in the Spanish literature by describing Spain’s declining image through the esperpento, his unique grotesque technique. His esperpento, first used in the Luces de Bohemia(1920), is a literary technique that looks at reality through a concave mirror and depicts the reflected reality in a concave mirror, which distorts the reality systematically. First, this study checks the subject aspects of Valle-Inclán’s famous and important theatre, Divinas Palabras and furthermore investigates the Spain’s deformity in the early 20th century, which was deconstructed by esperpento techniques, and grasps its ultimate meaning. In Divinas Palabras, Valle-Inclán denies all the existing values through esperpento techniques such as animalization, puppetification, and depiction of the contorted figure reflected in the concave mirror, etc. Thus, this study tries to find the deconstructed reality of human values, the authority of speech (language), the reason and logic system, the religious authority, and the family meaning which are reflected in Divanas Palabras by the esperpento. And such a deconstructed society is a harsh reality in Spain in the early 20th century, which was diagnosed by Valle-Inclán.