Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Speaking in Tongues: On Maragall, Unamuno and Pentecost

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2019), 96, (8), 815–833.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.49
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English
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19

Abstract

This article analyses the presence of Pentecost as a metaphor and model for Iberian multilingualism in the writings of Joan Maragall and Miguel de Unamuno. The correspondence between these two poets, in addition to documenting their admiration for one another and their political disagreements, reveals their distinct theologies of language and theories of translation. While Maragall approaches translation as a means to self-recognition that reinforces a sacred linguistic diversity, Unamuno views it as a process of defamiliarization and purification that aspires to form a single, transfigured language. These ideas are worked out in letters, poems, articles, essays and public address. The persistence and proliferation of floral games across Spain in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century becomes a particularly telling backdrop against which to examine each poet’s understanding of an Iberian ‘pentecostal tongue’.

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Harkema, Leslie J.