El pasajero

"The Passenger," the central collection of poems in Ramón María del Valle-Inclán's "Lyrical Keys" trilogy, marks an evolutionary transition from symbolism to an avant-garde and expressionist aesthetic. Through an autobiographical poetic voice that shifts from the religious to the human, the author unfolds an existential cartography of the poet as a wanderer, employing rigorous meter and chromatic symbolism to explore themes such as Orientalism, Hispanic American culture, mysticism, and existential angst in a modern, mechanized society.