Description:
Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life.

As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about existence and identity (both individual and national).Widely recognised and translated during his lifetime, he was an inescapably canonical figure on university syllabi across Europe and the Americas for many years after his death, and still appears on many curricula. In this Companion, a range of distinguished scholars with very different approaches both survey Unamuno’s work chronologically, analysing major developments and turning points or breaks as well as continuities, and further study key themes and preoccupations across his prolific narrative, theatrical and essay output. All contributors offer not just incisive discussion of the texts or topics studied, but also a balanced overview of issues and debates arising in Unamuno studies.


CONTENTS:

Introduction - Julia Biggane

Unamuno before 1902: Writing Nation, History and Politics - Jean-Claude Rabate

Writing Vital Struggle: Unamuno’s Narrative Fiction 1902-1923 - Julia Biggane

Exile 1924-1930: Essays, Narrative, and Drama - Stephen G.H. Roberts

Return from Exile: Politics and Poetics 1930-1936 - Pedro Ribas Ribas

Faith and Existence - Sandro Borzoni

Wordgames: Unamuno and the Primacy of Language - C Alex Longhurst

A Question of Ethics: Exploring Issues of Right and Wrong in Unamuno - Alison Sinclair

The Necessary Enemy or the Hated Friend: Self and Other in Unamuno - Gareth Wood

From Separate Spheres to Unilateral Androgyny: Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Unamuno - Julia Biggane

Quixotic Unamuno: Cervantes in Unamuno’s Thought and Fiction - J.A. Garrido Ardila

Landscapes of the Soul: Unamuno’s Travel Writing - Ramón F. Llorens Garcia

List of Contributors - Julia Biggane

Bibliography - Julia Biggane

Index - Julia Biggane