... century. The novel touches upon the interests and concerns of the 'Generation' and on a wider scale, the issue of European cultural deterioration. The influence of modernism is also apparent; the novel sees the use of the aesthetic model, symbolism, the exotic and the luxurious, the mysterious. Moreover, the application of the aesthetic tinged with the macabre, illness, pain, death, the profane and sacrilegious, sadomasochism and satanism. The Sonata de Otoño was influenced greatly by aesthetic novels such as: Huysman's Á Rebours and Oscar Wilde's: The picture of Dorian Gray. In the first paragraph we are told what it is that happens in the end: ¡Triste destino el de los dos! El viejo rosal de nuestros amores volvía a florecer para deshojarse piadoso sobre una sepultura.2 Thus, the reader's attention is focused more fully on the story, than on the development of the plot. This somehow alienates the reader from the text; ...

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