Miguel unamuno biography

BORN: , Bilbao, Spain

DIED: , Salamanca, Spain

NATIONALITY: Spanish

GENRE: Drama, fiction, poetry

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

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 place