Word: unamuno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athenaeum Club in Madrid, crowds cheered wildly when the Republican firebrand Professor Miguel de Unamuno sputtered...
THREE EXEMPLARY NOVELS-Miguel de Unamuno-Boni...
...Unamuno, a great name in Spain, famed throughout Europe, is not so well known in the U. S. Most religious of philosophers, most passionate of professors. Unamuno's earnestness and energy are untypical of Spain, his violent, rebellious liberalism untypical of his academic profession. Unamuno looks at life passionately and sees it as a tragedy. Says he, in the prologue to Three Exemplary Novels: "I believe the curve of the hyperbole strives - just so! to join with its asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate...
...Author. Miguel de Unamuno, onetime rector of the University of Sala manca (Spain's oldest), great philosopher of Spain, bitter enemy of the recent dictatorship, was banished by the late Dicta tor Primo de Rivera, spent six years in exile in France. Last February Primo de Rivera fell, an amnesty was declared (TIME, Feb. 10), Unamuno returned to Spain. Said he: "I return to work for the Spanish Republic!" Home only a few weeks, he was attacked by a savage dog in Zamora, had his left arm broken, his right hand badly torn...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...