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The Generation of 1898. |
 | | Despite the numerous unsettling political and social vicissitudes that affected the Spanish scene during the first third of the 20th century, cultural creation witnessed a renewed splendour, which caused certain observers to speak of a 'Silver Age, beginning in 1898 and ending with the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. |
| | The Generation of '98 was almost obsessively preoccupied with what came to be known as the 'Spanish problem', and thus rediscovered the beauty of the somber Castilian countryside and developed a considerable stylistic renovation avoinding the characteristic 19th century rhetoric. |
| | Some members of this Generation attained truly universal standing, as is the case of the Basque Miguel de Unamuno, who, in his 'Sentimiento tragico de la vida', anticipates the reflections and the basic themes of existencialism. |
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