Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was a writer and philosopher from the Basque Country in Spain.

Novels

Unamuno wrote the following novels, in chronological order:

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• Paz en la guerra (Peace in War) (1895), a work that explores the relationship of self and world through the familiarity with death.
• Amor y pedagogía (Love and Pedagogy) (1902), which unites comedy and tragedy in an absurd parody of positivist sociology.
• El espejo de la muerte (The Mirror of Death) (1913), a collection of stories.
• Niebla (Fog) (1914), one of Unamuno's key works, which he called a nivola to distinguish it from the supposedly fixed form of the novel ("novela" in Spanish).
• Abel Sánchez (1917), a novel that uses the Cain and Abel story to explore envy.
• Tulio Montalbán (1920), a short novel on the threat of a man's public image undoing his true personality, a problem familiar to the famous Unamuno.
• Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue) (1920), a much-studied work with a famous prologue.
• La tía Tula (Aunt Tula) (1921), his final large-scale novel, a work about maternity, a theme that he had already examined in Amor y pedagogía and Dos madres.
• Teresa (1924), a narrative work that contains romantic poetry, achieving an ideal through the re-creation of the beloved.
• Cómo se hace una novela (How to Make a Novel) (1927), the autopsy of an Unamuno novel.
• Don Sandalio, jugador de ajedrez (Don Sandalio, Chess Player) (1930).
• San Manuel Bueno, mártir (Saint Manuel the Good, Martyr) (1930), a brief novella that unites all of Unamuno's thought. The novel centers on a heroic priest who has lost his faith in immortality, yet says nothing of his doubts to his parishners, not wanting to disturb their faith.