Word: unamuno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matalax himself fathers only sterile hatreds and a longing for a private immortality that the world can never deliver. Yet without such longing he would lack the painful humanity that makes him a poignant character. There is throughout Niña Huanca an echo of Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's "tragic sense of life," recaptured and amplified in just the right tones of modern inconsolability...
...Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science and translation offered a contrast between trouble of the psyche and of the soul: Silvano Arieti's Interpretations of Schizophrenia and the Anthony Kerrigan translation of Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith...
...cities. But the four Basque provinces of Spain (Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa and Navarra) are among the country's richest. Through the centuries many Basques have gone out into the world and achieved greatness. Among them: St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius of Loyola, Philosopher Miguel Unamuno and South American Revolutionary Hero...
...their prospering industrial corner of north central Spain, some 2,000,000 dour, strong-willed Basques-"the alkaloid of the Spaniard," Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called them -fret that hard work and efficiency have not brought them the recognition and cultural elbowroom that they feel they deserve in a still-autocratic society. In France, which enjoys Western Europe's fastest-growing economy, young Bretons in search of a job and a future still gravitate to Paris. There they gather nightly, like so many expatriates, in the bars around Montparnasse to raise their glasses to a murmured Breiz atao-Brittany...
...19th Century Portugal itself was so poor and hopeless that the very existence of colonies aboard was a consolation to the ruling elite, if none to the impoverished mass of Portugese peasants. "In this cursed country," wrote a Portugese to the Spanish philosopher Unamuno, "all that is noble commits suicide; all that is vulgar triumphs. Our illness is a type of moral illness, of moral fatigue...In Portugal, the only belief worthy of respect is the belief worthy of respect is the belief in the freedom of death...