![]() ![]() She held him and called out, “My child!” Years later, Unamuno wrote of this experience and the lasting effect of those two words. That night in 1897, Unamuno’s wife Concha found her husband sobbing. Miguel de Unamuno believed that this tragedy was his fault, divine punishment for turning away from his childhood faith and embracing scientific rationalism. ![]() Raimundo’s illness disabled him physically and mentally. Just a few months earlier, Unamuno’s infant son Raimundo had contracted meningitis. Miguel de Unamuno woke one night in 1897, tormented by dreams of falling into nothingness. Unamuno was a Spanish patriot and one of its most outspoken critics a Basque who was also a Spaniard a child who wanted to be a Catholic saint a philosopher who was suspicious of philosophy. The philosopher and poet was born in conflict. Miguel de Unamuno’s earliest memory was of a bomb landing on the roof of his neighbor’s house during Spain’s final Carlist War. ![]()
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