La Biblioteca Rioplatense de Miguel de Unamuno

Abstract

Miguel de Unamuno as an intellectual appears in the end of the nineteenth century as an exception to paternalism and general contempt ruling Spanish American reception by most of Spanish writers. Unamuno sets himself up in the best promoter of Latin American Letters, as his epistles and particular lihrary show us. The present article contains a thorough enumeration including all those books which, being received by Unamuno from 1890 to 1935 from Argentine and Uruguayan writers, composed his personal library; from Sarmiento to young Borges, considering Delmira Agustini, Alfonsina Storni and other many authors already forgotten by critics, we intend to demonstre Unamuno's wide repertory of readings and, therefore, his wide range of ideologies, genres and times which, definitely, support his knowledge about Argentine and Uruguayan literature, deep but unusual taking into account the period we are dealing with.