Delirium and Destiny

by Zambrano, Maria; Maier, Carol; Johnson, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9780791440209
• ISBN10: 0791440206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

In 1988, Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) became the first woman to win the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award available to Spanish-language writers. She was the author of more than thirty books and was one of the most important disciples of Jose Ortega y Gasset.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Note to the Reader	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
A Dreamed Destiny	p. 3
Adsum	p. 5
Remembering the Future	p. 19
Spain Dreams Itself Awake	p. 41
Return to the Land	p. 61
Multiplicity of Times	p. 77
Return to the City	p. 85
Historical Conjuncture	p. 117
A Moment of Silence	p. 133
Inspiration	p. 139
The Hour	p. 149
Sunday, April 12	p. 155
April 14	p. 159
Toward the New World	p. 167
June 13, 1940	p. 171
From Havana to Paris	p. 175
The Sister	p. 177
Deliriums	p. 181
The Dove's Delirium	p. 183
The Madwoman	p. 185
The Woman with a Sweet Name	p. 189
The Queen	p. 193
"I" Am Going to Speak about "Myself"	p. 201
Aristotle's Sentence	p. 205
Corpus Christi in Florence	p. 207
The Chalice	p. 211
Return to the New World	p. 213
The Context and Achievement of Delirium and Destiny	p. 215
From Delirio y destino to Delirium and Destiny	p. 237
Glossary	p. 249
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