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Luis Martín-Santos

Died in 1964

Luis Martín-Santos was born in 1924 in Larache, in Morocco under Spanish protectorate, the son of a military man, and grew up in San Sebastián. He studied medicine in Salamanca and took his doctorate in Madrid, where he frequented the Café Gijón and the writers Ignacio Aldecoa, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio and Juan Benet, then from 1951 directed the psychiatric hospital of San Sebastián. He published works on Dilthey and Jaspers and on existential psychoanalysis. A socialist in the underground, he was arrested several times. He died in a road accident in Vitoria in 1964, leaving an unfinished novel published in 1975.

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