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Baltasar studied Latin and Greek at a Jesuit school, Philosophy in Calatayud, and Theology in Zaragoza. His father was a physician and he spent most of his youth together with his three brothers in the city of Toledo under his uncles’ care, who was a priest. He was baptised in Belmonte de Gracián, a suburb of Calatayud in province Zaragoza, kingdom of Aragon, today Spain. There are few details known of Baltasar Gracián‘s life. 9) Baltasar Gracian – A few Biographical Facts ![]() ![]() Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Maxim 15 (p. ![]() “If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.” His writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. He is best known as the leading Spanish exponent of conceptism ( conceptismo), a style of dealing with ideas that involves the use of terse and subtle displays of exaggerated wit. 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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Intimations is the third and slimmest of her essay collections, at 100 pages, but its psychic heft is substantial. Since then her prodigious output has included four additional novels, a novella, and a short story collection. Smith burst onto the literary scene 20 years ago with her stunning debut novel, White Teeth. Drafted soon after "the global humbling began" and completed in the days after George Floyd's murder, the book is "above all personal essays" that capture the author's reflections during a time outside of time. Zadie Smith makes that much clear in the foreword to her newest essay collection, Intimations, noting: "There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytical, political, as well as comprehensive accounts." Intimations isn't one of those books. If narrative and storytelling are among our most essential tools for making meaning of the world - and I believe they are - then periods of upheaval can be especially fertile for writers. ![]() |