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"As a member of the innovating Generation of 1898, Miguel de Unamuno is a major figure within a generation of major figures in Spanish literature. Among the first in the Latin countries to read Kierkegaard in the original Danish and to appreciate his enormous importance, Unamuno became an existentialist thinker well before the word became popular. Martin Nozick studies the full range of Unamuno's writing, from confessional and philosophic essay through novel, short story, drama, and verse. Eschewing the example of idolatrous "Unamunists" who present only the positive side of his performance, Professor Nozick adds roundness and humanity to his portrait of the great author by a frank discussion of his weaknesses and limitations, as well as his strengths. Examining his attitude toward religion, politics, history, and literature, this work reveals Unamuno's concern with the total man of flesh and blood, not man in the abstract, but man who lives in the world of temporal allegiances and ambitions and yet yearns for immortality."--Back cover.
