ESSAYS AND SOLILOQUIES _BORZOI TRANSLATIONS SPRING 1925_ _FROM THE SPANISH_ FIGURES OF THE PASSION OF OUR LORD BY GABRIEL MIRO _Translated by C. J. Hogarth_ _FROM THE FRENCH_ THE MODERN ENGLISH NOVEL BY ABEL CHEVALLEY _Translated by Ben Ray Redman_ _FROM THE GERMAN_ DEATH IN VENICE BY THOMAS MANN _Translated by Kenneth Burke_ _FROM THE RUSSIAN_ THE CLOCK BY ALEKSEI REMIZOV _Translated by John Cournos_ _TALES OF THE WILDERNESS_ BY BORIS PILNIAK _Translated by F. O’Dempsey_ _FROM THE NORWEGIAN_ SEGELFOSS TOWN BY KNUT HAMSUN _Translated by J. S. Scott_ _FROM THE POLISH_ THE PEASANTS BY LADISLAS REYMONT _Translated by Michael H. Dziewicki_ [Illustration] MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO ESSAYS AND SOLILOQUIES TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY J. E. CRAWFORD FLITCH [Illustration] NEW YORK ALFRED · A · KNOPF 1925 COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. SET UP, ELECTROTYPED, PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, BINGHAMTON, N. Y. ESPARTO PAPER MANUFACTURED IN SCOTLAND AND FURNISHED BY W.F. ETHERINGTON & CO., NEW YORK. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _Erratum_ The two paragraphs on pages 100-101 beginning: In “The Tragic Sense of Life” Unamuno says and: Readers of Don Quixote will recall are a continuation of the footnote on page 99. AUTHOR’S PREFACE I am writing these lines, to-day the 6th of June, 1924, in this island of Fuerteventura, an island that is propitious to calm thinking and to a laying bare of the soul, even as this parched land is bare, bare even to the bone. Here I have been confined now for nearly three months, no reason for my confinement having been given other than the arbitrary mandate of the military power that is de-civilizing and debasing my native country.