According to Unamuno, man’s hunger to live on after death is constantly denied by his reason and can only be satisfied by faith, and the resulting tension results in unceasing agony.Īlthough he also wrote poetry and plays, Unamuno was most influential as an essayist and novelist. At the heart of his view of life was his personal and passionate longing for immortality. Unamuno was an early existentialist who concerned himself largely with the tension between intellect and emotion, faith and reason. He died of a heart attack two months later. When Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship fell, Unamuno returned to the University of Salamanca and was reelected rector of the university in 1931, but in October 1936 he denounced General Francisco Franco’s Falangists, was removed once again as rector, and was placed under house arrest. His opposition in 1924 to General Miguel Primo de Rivera’s rule in Spain resulted in his forced exile to the Canary Islands, from which he escaped to France. In 1901 Unamuno became rector of the university, but he was relieved of his duties in 1914 after publicly espousing the Allied cause in World War I.

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