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Unamuno, Blasco Ibáñez and España con Honra

1976; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1475382762000353315

1469-3550

Víctor Ouimette,

Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. F. M. Kercheville and R. Hale, ‘Ibáñez and Spanish Republicanism’, MLJ, XVII (1933), 343. 2. Eduardo Betoret-Paris, ‘El caso Blasco Ibáñez’, Hispania (USA), LII (1969), 99. 3. Both of these works were translated into most western languages, with the significant exceptions of German and Italian. They were widely distributed throughout Europe and the Americas and the publicity claims that ‘millions’ of copies were printed. 4. Carlos Esplá, ‘Unamuno en el destierro’, La Torre, IX, no. 35–36 (1961), 133. 5. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Por España y contra el rey (París 1925). España con Honra does not appear in any library in France, nor, apparently, in Spain. It seems not to have been preserved by any members of the Republican government in exile, nor by either Unamuno's or Blasco's family. In 1973, Blasco's private library was donated to the Bibliothèque Municipale Paul-Doumer in Menton, but España con Honra does not figure in the collection. Its existence also goes unmentioned in the bibliographies of Armando F. Zubizarreta, Unamuno en su 'nivola' (Madrid 1961) and Elias Díaz, Revisión de Unamuno (Madrid 1968). Esplá makes a reference on page 133 of his article to Unamuno's 'artículos semanales para España Libre', while on page 137 he speaks of España con Honra. This appears to be a mere inconsistency, since the only other newspaper of its kind being published in Paris at the time was Eduardo Ortega y Gasset's Justicia, also a weekly, which preceded España con Honra and may have been merged into it. 6. Carlos Esplá, Unamuno, Blasco Ibáñez y Sánchez Guerra en París: recuerdos de un periodista (Buenos Aires 1940), 65. 7. Ibid., 68–70. Mauricio Xandró, in Blasco Ibáñez (Madrid 1971), 29, distorts Blasco's return to Menton: ‘Revolucionario al fin, ataca duramente y por todos los medios a Alfonso XIII y la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, por lo que ha de pasar sus últimos años proscrito en su quinta de Menton.’ 8. Eduardo Ortega y Gasset, España encadenada. La verdad sobre la Dictadura (Paris 1925), 291. 9. Miguel de Unamuno, ‘En memoria de Blasco Ibáñez’, Hojas Libres, no. 11 (February 1928), 3. 10. Emilio Salcedo, Vida de Don Miguel, 2nd ed. (1964; rpt. Salamanca 1970), 281. 11. Eduardo Comín Colomer, Unamuno, libelista (Madrid 1968), 2 and 87. 12. Besides the articles from España con Honra, some of the reactions to the lawsuit can be seen in the Madrid newspapers of January, 1925 and the Paris daily, Le Temps. 13. ‘El Caballero Audaz’ (José María Carretero), El novelista que vendió a su patria (Madrid 1924), 30. 14. Blasco's reference to the telegram can be found in Una nación secuestrada, loc. cit., 58–60. Eduardo Ortega y Gasset (p. 20n.) scandalously distorts it. 15. Emilio Gascó Contell, Genio y figura de Blasco Ibáñez (Madrid 1957), 172–73. 16. Esplá, Unamuno, Blasco Ibáñez y Sánchez Guerra, 68. 17. See Corpus Barga, ‘Blasco Ibáñez y Unamuno en París, II’, Ínsula, no. 251 (October 1967), 11. The first part of this article appears in Ínsula, no. 250 (September 1967), 1, 14. 18. Unamuno, Cómo se hace una novela (Buenos Aires 1927), 78. 19. Ibid., 13. 20. Quoted by Esplá, ‘Unamuno en el destierro,’ 137. 21. Julián Marías, ‘España, tema de Unamuno’, La Estafeta Literaria, no. 300–01 (12–26 September 1964), 24. 22. The word appears in the manifesto. See Fernando Díaz-Plaja, El siglo XX. Dictadura … República (Madrid 1964), 9. 23. Quoted from the manifesto. See Díaz-Plaja, 11. 24. Santiago Alba. See Díaz-Plaja, 11, 18, 75–76; Eduardo Ortega y Gasset, especially chapter VII. 25. José Sánchez Guerra. See Esplá, Unamuno, Blasco Ibáñez y Sánchez Guerra, 77–93. 26. Words applied in the manifesto to Alba. See Díaz-Plaja, 11. 27. Primo had inherited the title of Marqués de Estella from his uncle, who was largely responsible for Primo's rise through the army. See Unamuno, ‘Primo de Rivera’, Le Quotidien (Paris) (9 August 1924), 1. 28. Severiano Martínez Anido, formerly Civil Governor of Barcelona. 29. Generals Picasso and, later, Bazán, had each headed an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the massacre of Spanish troops at Annual, in July, 1921. Because the King was implicated, the coup of Primo served to silence the reports. See Eduardo Ortega y Gasset, 23–28. 30. The new political movement formed by Primo in April, 1924. 31. Phrase coined by the Duke of Tetuán, Primo's War Minister, to call for a political reorientation away from the question of responsibility for the Moroccan war. See Unamuno, ‘Hablemos al ejército’, Hojas Libres, no. 3 (June 1927), 7.