To correctly understand Unamuno’s plan, you need to remember that the novel “Peace in the Middle of War” was created during the years of extraordinary popularity in Spain of the work of Leo Tolstoy. Both Tolstoy and Unamuno, trying to reflect the fullness of life in the worlds they describe, resort to multiplying centers of action: both novels show the life of several families connected by ties of kinship and friendship. In “Peace in the midst of War,” life flows against the backdrop of events known to readers from history, but the war itself is shown from a different perspective: from the point of view of the people inside it, people whose perception is usually not taken into account by historians and the most paradoxical thing in this perspective the fact that the heroes living inside the war do not notice it...