Books: Man v. Windmills

ABEL SANCHEZ & OTHER STORIES (216 pp.) — Miguel de Unamuno — Henry Regnery ($1.25).

One of the doughtiest soldiers of the modern world of ideological civil war is too obscurely defined in the U.S. ken. He is—or was—Don Miguel de Unamuno, twice rector of and twice expelled from the University of Salamanca,* who brought to recent letters a Spanish taste for macabre conundrums about death: "One day we shall all die, even the dead."

Basque-born Unamuno had a Spanish flair for paradox—he insisted that the fictional Don Quixote was a greater and a realer man than Don Quixote's creator, Cervantes. This kind...