by María Zambrano · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422630203
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«Delirio y destino» is the autobiographical work by María Zambrano (Círculo de Lectores, hardcover, 352 pages, in Spanish).
«Delirio y destino» recalls the years of María Zambrano between 1929 and the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931, a period the author considers foundational for her biography and for those who shared her circumstances. It combines historical reflections and confessional fragments, and points to helplessness, solitude, nostalgia, and exile.
Written in Havana in 1952 and published in 1989, it bears the subtitle «Los veinte años de una española» and includes a prologue by Miguel Morey.
For readers of memoirs and twentieth-century Spanish history, as well as for those who wish to approach the thought of María Zambrano.
María Zambrano Alarcón was a Spanish philosopher, intellectual, and essayist. Her extensive work between poetic reflection and civic engagement was not recognized in Spain until the last quarter of the 20th century, after a nearly 45-year-long exile. In 1988, Zambrano became the first woman to receive the Premio Cervantes, the highest literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world. She is increasingly regarded as one of the most important voices of the 20th century, and Spanish scholarship often places her alongside thinkers such as Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, as well as her close friend and contemporary Rosa Chacel.
