Biography Of Miguel De Unamuno

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO (1864-1936)
Miguel de Unamuno he will undoubtedly occupy - next to the classics, of whom he has his maturity and perenniality - a leading place in Spanish literature. Essayist, scholar, critic, novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, teacher, he was everything and left a deep mark on everything.

Miguel de Unamuno nhe came to Bilbao in 1864, and in that city he graduated from high school. He then studied Philosophy and Letters in Madrid, acquiring a solid humanistic culture and a direct knowledge of the Greek and Latin classics. Back in Bilbao, he devoted himself to private education, until 1891, the year in which he obtained, by competition, the chair of Greek at the University of Salamanca.

From this time are his lectures and revolutionary attitudes, which made him one of the most influential liberal spirits in the world. Spain and, later, one of the most qualified values ​​of the Salamanca University, until 1914, when he was dismissed for his ideas policies of him. His dissatisfaction and his constant attacks on the monarchy determined, in 1924, his exile to Fuerteventura [Canary Islands), from where he managed to escape. He later settled in Hendaye (France), next to the Spanish border. The republic triumphant, he was restored to the position of rector in Salamanca and was appointed, on a solemn occasion (1933), an honorary citizen of the republic. He died in Salamanca in 1936.

Miguel de Unamuno fHe was, above all, a thinker, a philosopher in whom his convictions of Spanish and Basque and the thought of philosophers were mixed! Europeans that he read and knew as few of his compatriots.

Parades through the pages of his work On the tragic feeling of life Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and others more than I would be. long enumerate. Of course, he did not lack the luminous presence of Socrates and Plato and the eternal wisdom of the Bible.

Miguel de Unamuno he cultivated the novel of ideas, with style and very points of view; personal. True explorations of the human soul, the novels of this author have a psychological and philosophical density that brings them, on many occasions, closer to the essay.
His most important novels are: Paz en la guerra, Amor y pedagogía Niebla, Abel Sánchez, La tía Tula, San Manuel bueno, martir and Tres novélai copies and a prologue.

The essay was his favorite genre, with which he reached his greatest height. He wrote about culture, about works and authors, philosophy, etc., always with originality. He is a writer of ideas, but he never intended to give them facts to the readers, quite the contrary, to use them in such a way that in the soul of each one produced the spiritual war, the inner tears that engender the authentic maturity, the true progress intellectual. His work, even that of imagination —poetry, theater, short story, novel— is always an incarnate idea, an "adventure of thought," a painful delving into the living flesh of conscience. His essay books: Around casticism; Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, valuable contribution to Cervantes literature; The future of Spain; Epistolary with Ganivet; Of the tragic feeling of life, his masterpiece, full of philosophical thought and originality; The agony of Christianity, etc.; They are written in brilliant prose and always full of expressiveness.