Russell Kirk on The Sage as Novelist: Miguel de Unamuno

Half a century has elapsed since the death of Don Miguel de Unamuno and still his works are much read and written about.

Three volumes of his stories and novellas have been reissued recently in English translation–able translation, by the way.

Hundreds of best-selling novelists have risen, and vanished forever from bookshops, during those five decades. Yet Unamuno is everywhere cited and quoted; all of his more important fiction, criticism, and commentary is available in English and other languages; and his fiction’s originality has been admired by successive generations of readers and critics.

Why this enduring power?

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