La corte de los milagros

Synopsis of La corte de los milagros

In the last years of the reign of Fernando VII, absolutism is mitigating its rigor, while in the court, a vast intrigue is forming around the monarch's brother, which continues with the rise to the throne of Isabel II. His entire reign will be an uninterrupted series of conspiracies and revolts. Within the caricature of what was already an «esperpentic reality» (the reign of Fernando VII and the rise to power of Isabel II), Valle manages to use all the current topics, all the slogans of the parties, and to compose a mosaic of real and invented characters. This work is the first of the series of novels Ruedo ibérico; Valle planned three trilogies of which he only completed the first two novels. The court of miracles is starred by entanglements, intrigues and intricacies of the court, in an era in which there was no lack of palace miracles or stigmatized nuns.