''Juan de Mairena (sentencias, donaires, apuntes y recuerdos de un profesor apócrifo)'' is a book written in
prose
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ...
by the Spanish author
Antonio Machado
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation ...
in 1936 and published by Espasa Calpe.
Plot
An imaginary teacher and his students analyse the society, the culture, the art, the literature, the politics and the philosophy by the paradox, the adage, the erudition, the introspection, the rhetoric and the spoonerism.
Analysis
The appearance of Juan de Mairena is like Antonio Machado at his 33 years in 1898. The book was originally signed as a
heteronym work.
Based on the discovery of some poems to
Guiomar supposedly prior to the date when Machado and Pilar met, conclude that Guiomar is but another of Machado's apocryphal imaginaries, such as Abel Martín or Juan de Mairena.
References
1936 books
Characters in Spanish novels
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