Word: unamuno
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...conquer his fear of death, Unamuno mortified flesh and mind. He scampered daily up a nearby mountain, refused to wear a coat in the winter, plowed through philosophical works that were too formidable for most of his elders. By 16, he was ready to enter the University of Madrid, where he tackled all subjects and became a nonstop talker. After graduation, in fact, he talked himself out of one university job after another because he could not resist showing off his knowledge. One person always willing to listen was a gentle girl named Concha whom Unamuno had known from childhood...
...pork. But in humanism's world of reason, Don Quixote's crime was not his madness but his faith. So is it in today's world of analytic couches. "It is my reason that laughs at my faith," wrote Spain's top Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). "And it is here that I must betake me to my Lord Don Quixote in order that I may learn of him how to confront ridicule and overcome it." Don Quixote overcame it by letting the world overcome him. "The divine tragedy is the tragedy of the Cross...
...Hollywood's No. 1 sin-ridden heavy. In I, Don Quixote, Actor Cobb, brilliantly backed by Eli Wallach and Colleen Dewhurst, put on a performance that was both poignant and terrifying but never out of control. His deeply felt Don Quixote seemed to overcome the world, as Philosopher Unamuno put it, "by giving [it] cause to laugh...
...Modern Spanish-American Literature," taught by Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, is one of the three new Spanish courses for 1959-60. The Department will also offer "The Enlightenment in Hispanic Literature," with emphasis on Feijoo, Cadalse, and Jovellano; and readings in "Unamuno and Ortega Y Gasset." A seminar on readings in Galdos, which was dropped from the catalogue in 1956, has been reinstated...
Self-Exiled. Unamuno continued to teach at the university, and politically he worked for the Republicans against the monarchy, but when Primo de Rivera's dictatorship took over in 1923, he attacked the new militarists, and the dictator forced him into exile in the Canary Islands. Although amnesty was granted a few months later, he exiled himself to Paris. By this time, his was the greatest literary name in the Hispanic world, and after Primo de Rivera's death, he returned to Salamanca with national acclaim. But Don Miguel was really a Don Quixote, and his Quixote...