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Tyrant Banderas leaned out of the window, waved his dagger, and was shot to pieces. Decapitated by decree, his head was placed on a scaffold in the parade ground for three days in yellow sacking. The same decree ordered that his torso be quartered and scattered from frontier to frontier and from seashore to seashore. Zamalpoa and Nueva Cartagena, Puerto Colorado and Santa Rosa del Titipay were the cities thus blessed.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del, 1866–1936.
[Tirano Banderas. English]
Tyrant Banderas / by Ramón del Valle-Inclán ; introduction by Alberto Manguel ; translated by Peter Bush.
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ISBN 978-1-59017-498-2 (alk. paper)
1. Dictators—Fiction. I. Manguel, Alberto. II. Bush, Peter R., 1946– III. Title.
PQ6641.A47T513 2012
863'.62—dc23
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