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Mist: A TRAGICOMIC NOVEL
Miguel de Unamuno
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Description for Mist: A TRAGICOMIC NOVEL
Paperback. A novel that features Augusto Perez, the pampered son of a recently deceased mother; the deceitful, scheming Eugenia, whom Augusto obsessively idealizes; and, Augusto's dog Orfeo, who gives a funeral oration upon his master's death. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
A towering figure of political, philosophical, and literary controversy, Miguel de Unamuno was the undisputed intellectual leader of the brilliant Generation of 1898 that ushered in a second golden age of Spanish culture. In the vast and varied body of his work, none conveys his intellectual legacy more effectively than Mist, a monument of the philosophical novel and a masterpiece of modern experimental fiction.
Dispensing with the conventions of action, time and place, and analysis of character, Mist proceeds entirely on the strength of dialogue that reveals the struggles of what Unamuno called his "agonists." These include ... Read more
A towering figure of political, philosophical, and literary controversy, Miguel de Unamuno was the undisputed intellectual leader of the brilliant Generation of 1898 that ushered in a second golden age of Spanish culture. In the vast and varied body of his work, none conveys his intellectual legacy more effectively than Mist, a monument of the philosophical novel and a masterpiece of modern experimental fiction.
Dispensing with the conventions of action, time and place, and analysis of character, Mist proceeds entirely on the strength of dialogue that reveals the struggles of what Unamuno called his "agonists." These include ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068942
SKU
V9780252068942
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About Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was one of Spain's most accomplished authors. His works include The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples, Abel Sanchez, and Love and Pedagogy.Theodore Ziolkowski, a professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University, is the author of The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image and other books.
Reviews for Mist: A TRAGICOMIC NOVEL
"It is excellent news that Unamuno's Niebla is once again available in English, in this readable version by Warner Fite. The generally pedantic and even stilted tone of much of Augusto's monologues and dialogues has been preserved, and even if that seems strange to the unprepared English-reader... Reading this translation has confirmed me in the belief that Niebla deserves not ... Read more