First edition of this philosophical and poetic miscellany attributed to an apocryphal professor Juan de Mairena.

‘Machado had already created the persona of “Abel Martin”, a poet-philosopher. Mairena had been invented as a pupil of Abel Martin as early as 1917 (in an Andalusian copla) but from 1934 he becomes a recognizable personality. In his general attitudes and maxims he recalls the iconoclastic Baroja and Unamuno; in his poetry he is simply a heteronym for Machado in a predominantly classical vein’ (Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature).

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