MACHADO, Antonio.
Juan de Mairena. Sentencias, donaires, apuntes y recuerdos de un profesor apócrifo.
Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1936.
8vo, pp. 344, with frontispiece portrait by José Machado, errata slip; a fine copy, uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers.
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Juan de Mairena. Sentencias, donaires, apuntes y recuerdos de un profesor apócrifo.
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).
