by Antonio Machado · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437605869
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«Juan de Mairena, II» is Antonio Machado's prose work, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
The apocryphal professor Juan de Mairena, an invention of Antonio Machado, stars in these texts from the 1930s. With irony and scepticism, his reflections cross philosophy, literature and ethics, and the edition includes articles the author published during the civil war.
Second volume of the Juan de Mairena cycle, in the Letras Hispánicas collection (no. 241), edited by Antonio Fernández Ferrer. Published in 2004.
For readers of Spanish literature who want to discover the prose side of Antonio Machado, a representative 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."
