Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣ̞el ð̞e̞ u.naˈmu.no i ˈxu.ɣ̞o] 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
"Unamuno" redirects here. For other uses, see Unamuno (disambiguation).
Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish
Agony of Christianity
His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912),[3] and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917),[4] a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".[5]
Death[edit]
Unamuno died on 31 December 1936[26] during house arrest imposed by the military forces that occupied Salamanca at the time. He died as a result of the inhalation of gases from a brazier during a one hour long interview with a visitor. A recent theory cites a 2020 book by Colette Rabaté and Jean-Claude Rabaté to suggest that he may have been murdered by Bartolomé Aragón, the last person to have visited him, based on the fact that he falsely claimed to be a former student of his, was a fascist militant (and requeté) with opposed political ideas to Unamuno and had collaborated with Nationals propaganda before. In fact, the Rabaté couple never defended this theory, since they have no new evidence to support it.[29] These circumstances are, however, well known since the time of the events in 1936, and Aragón and Unamuno had indeed a previous intellectual relationship.[30] Additional telltale findings were: the lack of autopsy (despite having been mandatory, as the cause of death was determined to be a sudden death due to an intracranial bleeding), two screams from Unamuno heard by his maid during the Aragón visit and discrepancies in the time of death registered by the coroner and the authorities.[31][32][33]
