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Unamuno: The Sage as Novelist
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BOOK WORLD
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12 / 1987 |
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Russell Kirk Russell Kirk is the author of more than thirty books,
including The Conservative Mind, now available in its seventh
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NOVELA/NIVOLA
Miguel de Unamuno, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Princeton: Princeton University Press, Reprint 1987
517pp., $10.50 (paperback)
THREE EXEMPLARY NOVELS
Miguel de Unamuno, translated by Angel Flores
New York: Grove Press, Reprint 1987
228 pp., $7.95 (paperback)
FICCIONES: FOUR STORIES AND A PLAY
Miguel de Unamuno, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Princeton: Princeton University press, Reprint 1987
310 pp., $8.95 (paperback)
Half a century has elapsed since the death of Don Miguel de Unamuno and still his works are much read and written about. Three volumes of his stories and novellas have been reissued recently in English translation--able translation, by the way. Hundreds of best-selling novelists have risen, and vanished forever from bookshops, during those five decades. Yet Unamuno is everywhere cited and quoted; all of his more important fiction, criticism, and commentary is available in English and other languages; and his fiction's originality has been admired by successive generations of readers and critics. Why this enduring power?
On the face of it, one might not expect Unamuno to retain a great
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