María Zambrano
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María Zambrano (April 22, 1904, Málaga – February 6, 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher.
Zambrano studied under and was influenced by José Ortega y Gasset. Her involvement in the Spanish civil war caused her exile when Francisco Franco came to power.
A biographical chronology (in Spanish) is available here.
María querida (Dearest Maria), directed by José Luis García Sánchez in 2004, is a film about her life.
[edit] Bibliography
An extensive bibliography is available here.
Selected primary literature:
- Horizontes del liberalismo (The Horizons of Liberalism) (1930).
- Filosofia y poesía (Philosophy and Poetry) (1940).
- La agonía de Europa (The Agony of Europe) (1945).
- Hacia un saber sobre al alma (Towards a Knowledge of the Soul) (1950).
- Persona y democracia (Person and Democracy) (1959).
- La tumba de Antígones (Antigones's Tomb) (1967).
- Delirio y destino (1989), translated as Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999).
Secondary literature:
- Andrew Bush, "María Zambrano and the Survival of Antigone," Diacritics volume 34, number 3–4 (2004): 90–111.
[edit] Sources
- Claire Buck (ed.), Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992)
