Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French Author Gide's reputation is enormously greater than his popularity. He had never written a best-seller until, at 67, he visited what he thought was the Promised Land, returned to confess that he was mistaken...
INVERTEBRATE SPAIN-José Ortega y Gasset-Norton...
...Spaniard at that, which was read with respect by brokers and Senators alike. The Revolt oj the Masses (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932) was one of those surprise best-sellers which was not aimed at the large depression-chastened audience it found. That book established Professor José Ortega y Gasset in the U. S. consciousness as an original and forceful thinker-about-civilization. Last week his third book, a collection of essays on Spain, came no less timely to U. S. readers...
...Ortega is no longer a professor and no longer in Spain. After the Spanish Revolution of 1931 which his writing and influence did much to bring about, he was a deputy to the new Republic's first Cortes. At the outbreak of the Franco rebellion last summer, Ortega added his signature to a proclamation of loyalty to the Government. Later, a sick man, he left his war-torn country for neutral France. The essays in his book were all written before the Spanish civil war began, but this historian's-eye-view reveals an even grimmer prospect than...
...illness, Dr. Ortega y. Gassett, well known political philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Madrid in Spain, will be unable to give the annual public Godkin lectures at Harvard next month. Word to this effect has been received by the University from Dr. Gasset, who has been living in France since the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. It is expected that no substitute lecturer will be named to take his place...