Ceip miguel unamuno biography

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo is a crucially important figure in twentieth-century Spanish culture.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and.
Miguel de Unamuno was a very famous Basque philosopher and writer.

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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and educator whose essays had considerable influence in early twentieth-century Spain. Concluding that a rational explanation of God and the meaning of life could not be found, Unamuno decided that it was necessary to abandon all pretense of rationalism and simply embrace faith. His most famous work, Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida en los hombres y en los pueblo (1913 The Tragic Sense of Life), suggested that man’s desire for immortality is constantly denied by reason and can only be satisfied by faith, creating an unceasing spiritual anxiety which drives men to live the fullest possible life. This theme was further explored in La agonía del cristianismo (1925; The Agony of Christianity) which suggested that out of this spiritual anxiety comes the desire to believe in God and the need for faith, which reason cannot confirm.

Unamuno was most influential as an essayist and novelist, although he also wrote poetry an

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Unamuno (y Jugo), Miguel de

Nationality: Spanish. Born: Bilbao, 29 September 1864. Education: Colegio de San Nicolás, and Instituto Vizacaíno, both Bilbao; University of Madrid, 1880-84, Ph.D. 1884. Family: Married Concepción Lizárraga Ecénarro in 1891; nine children. Career: Professor of Greek, University of Salamanca, 1891-1924, 1930-34; Rector, University of Salamanca, 1901-14, 1934-36; exiled to Canary Islands for criticism of Primo de Rivera government, 1924, then lived in Paris, 1924, and Hendaye, 1925-30; under house arrest for criticism of Franco government, 1936. Awards: Cross of the Order of Alfonso XII, 1905. Died: 31 December 1936.

Publications

Collections

Obras completas, edited by Manuel Garcia Blanco. 16 vols., 1966-71.

Selected Works, edited by Anthony Kerrigan. 7 vols., 1967-84.

Short Stories

El espejo de la muerte. 1913.

Abel Sánchez: Una historia de pasión. 1917; translated as Abel Sanchez, 1947.

Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo. 1920; as Three Exemplary Novels, 1930.

San Manuel Bueno, mártir y tres historias más. 193

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Unamuno, Miguel de

BORN: 1864, Bilbao, Spain

DIED: 1936, Salamanca, Spain

NATIONALITY: Spanish

GENRE: Drama, fiction, poetry

MAJOR WORKS:
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1905)
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples (1913)
Mist: A Tragicomic Novel (1914)
The Agony of Christianity (1925)

Overview

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo is a crucially important figure in twentieth-century Spanish culture. Novelist, short-story

writer, poet, playwright, teacher, and commentator on politics, culture, and literature, he was appointed professor of Greek philology at the University of Salamanca at the age of twenty-six. By age fifty, he was rector of the university. Dismissed from his rectorship and later imprisoned and exiled for his public criticisms of the monarchy and the government, he went on to publish a study of the politics and philosophy of Christianity as well as other works. After a triumphant return to his native country, Unamuno remained a controversial figure: the Vatican placed his essay The Agony of Christianity (1925) on the Index of Prohibited Bo