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Miguel De Unamuno
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R876
Discovery Miles 8 760
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Tragic Sense of Life is a book of philosophical reflection which
considers the nature and transience of humanity, the trials -
physical, societal and emotional - of existence, together with
death and the afterlife. A superb treatise whereby the author's
intellect is unleashed upon a variety of questions, this text
combines the passionate liveliness found in Unamuno's fictional
efforts with a thought-provoking gravitas cast upon life and
living. The towering ambitions of man are shown to pale in the face
of limitations and reality: immortality, the greatest aspiration of
all, is but an impossibility. The title, in alluding to tragedy,
foretells the author's argument that life and human nature have a
strong streak of absurdity. In the final chapter, the author
compares the classic story of Don Quixote - the man whose mad
ambition led him to ride his horse in four directions at once -
with everyday human life.
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Niebla (Hardcover)
Miguel De Unamuno
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R1,587
Discovery Miles 15 870
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Delve into three of Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's most
haunting parables. This essential Unamuno reader begins with the
full-length novel Abel Sanchez, a modern retelling of the story of
Cain and Abel. Also included are two remarkable short stories, The
Madness of Doctor Montarco and San Manuel Bueno, Martyr, featuring
quixotic, philosophically existential characters confronted by the
dull ache of modernity. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan and with an
insightful introduction by Mario J. Valdes
Philosopher, essayist, dramatist, poet, novelist, Unamuno was an
impassioned and unorthodox thinker whose novels foreshadow the
works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Carlos
Fuentes. Elegantly simple in language, these novels probe the
elemental forces of human personality: In Two Mothers, the demonic
will of a woman runs amok in a whirlwind of maternal power, and in
The Marquis of Lumbria, another unforgettable heroine steers a
violent course through the dense sea of tradition. By contrast,
Nothing Less Than a Man, Unamuno's most forceful piece of writing,
focuses on a truly Nietzchean hero, a man who embodies human will
deprived of spiritual strength.
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by
the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of
both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a
broad and representative collection of classic works.
Siguiendo su peculiar manera de novelar, en que excluye casi por
completo la descripcion de fenomenos externos para atender al
paisaje interior de la personalidad humana, Unamuno ha creado en La
tia Tula un personaje femenino paradojico, complejo y discutible
que no deja frio al lector.
The first English translation of Unamuno's first novel, published
in 1897, when he was 33. Its setting is the Basque country of
northern Spain during the Second Carlist War (1874--1876), a
conflict he lived through as a child. Originally published in 1983.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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