NEW YORK (
El País / Eduardo Lago) Thomas Mermall, a professor of Spanish language and literature who taught at New York University, died last Thursday of a pancreatic cancer in Manhattan. Mermall, a specialist in the history of Spanish contemporary thought, was the author of a collection of books, articles and essays that comprise a bright journey across Spain's intellectual life after the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.Two of his leading works were The Rhetoric of Humanism and The Allegories of Power in Francisco Ayala, besides a superb critical edition of Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses, which includes an analysis of the impact this book had in American culture. Miguel de Unamuno, Octavio Paz, Jiménez Lozano and Laín Entralgo are some of the leading men of letters whom the prestigious Hispanist dissected with great clarity.>>>
