José Cadalso
Spanish Enlightenment writer, poet, satirist, and army officer, best known for the epistolary satire Cartas marruecas and the melancholic Noches lúgubres; his cosmopolitan outlook and social critique bridged Neoclassicism and early Romantic sensibilities.
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1. Cartas Marruecas / Noches Lúgubres
An Enlightenment-era pairing that contrasts rational social critique with raw emotional despair: an epistolary exchange between a Moroccan traveler, his mentor, and a Spaniard dissects the customs, vices, and identity of eighteenth-century Spain, while a nocturnal dramatic monologue follows a grief-stricken man consumed by mourning, death, and the limits of reason.
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