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Unamuno: The Sage as Novelist
Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS
Author: Russell Kirk
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 12/1/1987
Size: 3,552 Words, 20,684 Characters

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...


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...s continue to be so seriously discussed and widely read. Bryan Griffin wrote in 1983 that there has begun, in the writing and publication of fiction, a battle "between those who would be governed by the moral instinct, and those who would deny that instinct." To Unamuno especially, among the men of letters of this century, the adherents of the moral instinct may turn for example and precept.



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