by Antonio Machado · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437605852
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«"Juan de Mairena, I" is a prose work by Antonio Machado, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).»
Juan de Mairena is an apocryphal character created by Antonio Machado, whose texts move between academia and parody, philosophy and literature, between scepticism and ethical commitment. The edition brings together the Mairena cycle of the 1930s: an unpublished manuscript, the 1936 book and the articles from the civil war.
It belongs to the Letras Hispánicas collection (number 240) and is edited by Antonio Fernández Ferrer; this is the sixth edition, published in 2006.
For readers of Spanish classics who want to discover the prose side of Antonio Machado, the Sevillian poet of the Generation of '98.
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, simply known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. His work, initially modernist, evolved towards an intimate form of symbolism with romantic traits. He gradually developed a style characterised by both an engagement with humanity on one side and an almost Taoist contemplation of existence on the other, a synthesis that, according to Machado, echoed the most ancient popular wisdom. In Gerardo Diego's words, Machado "spoke in verse and lived in poetry."
