Love in A. Machado and M. de Unamuno, an impulse towards the other

Un impulso hacia lo otro.

Abstract

Even taking into account their interest in the question of otherness, the machadian and unamunian works, are disparate if we think about the literary strategies they used for others or in the purpose they had. Machado, to know himself, resorted to a creation of figurations that would express themselves, more similar to that of Pessoa -although without reaching such a degree of disconnection- namely, and despite the various denominations that criticism have given, to the creation of apocryphal. On the contrary, Unamuno, yearning for immortality, introduced his figure of author as a character, put part of what he was in the construction of these beings that would remain within the history of literature or created a poet ex-future self (in the case of Rafael), more alien to his person than the apocryphal are, but not so much so that we can call it heteronym. Despite these differences, our writers converged at the time of finding in love the engine necessary to jump from one the other.