Peace in War A Novel
Translated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick with Anthony Kerriqan
Annotated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick, with an introduction by Allen Lacy
This is the first English translation of the first and most traditionally realistic of Unamuno's novels, Paz en la guerra. (1897). The book draws heavily on the author's childhood memories of the siege of. the Basque city of Bilbao during the Second Carlist War (1873-76). The great Spanish forerunner of Existentialism portrays a collective hero-the humble citizens of the bombarded city, whose daily lives are disrupted by historical forces beyond their control or understanding.
Unamuno mingles these fictional characters with the generals and politicians of mid nineteenth century Spain, the participants in the struggle between the conservative and traditionalist supporters of the Pretender Don Carlos and the liberal central government in Madrid. His novel gives vivid life to the arguments he had presented in a series of essays, En torno al caticismo (On Authentic Tradition) in 1895. In these essays lie had urged his fellow citizens to abandon the ideologies and dogmatism that divided the nation, the demonic and oversimplified slogans that lead to war, and to seek instead the unity to be found in their common mortality.
Translated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick with Anthony Kerriqan
Annotated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick, with an introduction by Allen Lacy
This is the first English translation of the first and most traditionally realistic of Unamuno's novels, Paz en la guerra. (1897). The book draws heavily on the author's childhood memories of the siege of. the Basque city of Bilbao during the Second Carlist War (1873-76). The great Spanish forerunner of Existentialism portrays a collective hero-the humble citizens of the bombarded city, whose daily lives are disrupted by historical forces beyond their control or understanding.
Unamuno mingles these fictional characters with the generals and politicians of mid nineteenth century Spain, the participants in the struggle between the conservative and traditionalist supporters of the Pretender Don Carlos and the liberal central government in Madrid. His novel gives vivid life to the arguments he had presented in a series of essays, En torno al caticismo (On Authentic Tradition) in 1895. In these essays lie had urged his fellow citizens to abandon the ideologies and dogmatism that divided the nation, the demonic and oversimplified slogans that lead to war, and to seek instead the unity to be found in their common mortality.
