by Antonio Machado · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470390364
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«Juan de Mairena» is Antonio Machado's philosophical prose work, published by Castalia Ediciones in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio Machado lends his voice to Juan de Mairena, an apocryphal professor, to offer maxims, witticisms, notes and memories on philosophy, morality, aesthetics and politics. His skeptical and benevolent gaze treats human weaknesses with understanding.
The work belongs to the Clásicos Castalia collection, number 42. This edition includes introduction, notes and editing by José María Valverde.
For students of Spanish literature and readers interested in the philosophical thought of Antonio Machado, a figure 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."
