Is official history important in people’s every day life?

• Anna Hamling ^[1]
  1. [1] University of New Brunswick

     University of New Brunswick

     Canadá

     
• Localización: La Razón histórica: revista hispanoamericana de historia de las ideas políticas y sociales, ISSN-e 1989-2659, Nº. 62, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: EL GRAN SENTIMIENTO), págs. 30-38
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Lev Nikolaevicz Tolstoy, Russian writer (1828-1910) and Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer (1864-1936) ‘the apostles of the renewed Christianity’, were deeply engaged in a controversial debate on the importance of historical events. Their interest in history stems from their ideas on immortality and Christianity considered to be a historical religion.

    In the current article. I will elaborate on the concept of history and ‘intra-history’ as understood by Tolstoy and Unamuno especially relevant in the current climate of international conflict I will also refer to the relevant sources that influenced Tolstoy’s and Unamuno’s thinking on history. Miguel de Unamuno did not read Russian but he became interested in the works of Lev Tolstoy after reading the French translation of War and Peace in 1884. War and Peace was published in Spanish five years later in 1889 (Bagno 45).