, 1920).
[2] _Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho, explicada y comentada_, por M. de
Unamuno: Madrid, Fernando Fe, 1905.
[3] These three novels appeared together as _Tres Novelas y un Prologo_
Calpe, Madrid, 1921.
[4] "Me va interesando ese Dean Inge," he wrote to me last year.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
I intended at first to write a short Prologue to this English
translation of my _Del Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida_, which has been
undertaken by my friend Mr. J.E. Crawford Flitch. But upon further
consideration I have abandoned the idea, for I reflected that after all
I wrote this book not for Spaniards only, but for all civilized and
Christian men--Christian in particular, whether consciously so or
not--of whatever country they may be.
Furthermore, if I were to set about writing an Introduction in the light
of all that we see and feel now, after the Great War, and, still more,
of what we foresee and forefeel, I should be led into writing yet
another book. And that is a thing to be done with deliberation and only
after having better digested this terrible peace, which is nothing else
but the war's painful convalescence.
As for many years my spirit has been nourished upon the very core of
English literature--evidence of which the reader may discover in the
following pages--the translator, in putting my _Sentimiento Tragico_
into English, has merely converted not a few of the thoughts and
feelings therein expressed back into their original form of expression.
Pages:
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45