by Antonio Machado · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423915309
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«Juan de Mairena» is the philosophical and literary work by Antonio Machado, published by Espasa-Calpe in hardcover (236 pages, in Spanish).
Machado invents Juan de Mairena, an apocryphal professor whose words unfold in reflections, aphorisms and maxims about life, society and culture. Through this character, the book blurs the boundaries between academic discourse and parody, philosophy and literature, skepticism and ethical commitment.
The edition belongs to the Austral Collection with the extra volume mark and was published in February 1998.
For a general audience interested in literature and fiction, especially in twentieth-century Spanish prose.
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."
