Niebla
Place on List:
II. Literary Genre: The
Novel
4. How
do elements of irony work in the novel?
Miguel
de Unamuno. Niebla.
(1914,
Spain)
Supporting References:
- Gomila, Antoni. "Unamuno, Miguel de." The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. : Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference. 2005. Date Accessed 16 Aug. 2013
The article offers
an overview of Unamuno and less a discussion on the above-cited
text.
“Unamuno, Miguel de (1865–1936). Multi-faceted Spanish writer
(novelist, poet, essayist) and professor (philologist). Deeply
concerned about the meaning of life and death, which inspired all his
writings, and dissatisfied by the sceptical answers of science and
reason as regards eternal life, Unamuno argued for an existential
attitude—the ‘tragic sense of life’—consisting in acting as
if human life has in fact a transcendent significance, even given our
uncertainty that it has.
“Unamuno found this attitude
exemplified in lonely heroes such as Don Quixote and Jesus: men who,
despite their respective folly and doubts (or maybe because of them),
carried out their missions, thus redeeming themselves and others.
This attitude has a clear religious dimension, closer to Protestant
spirituality than to Spanish orthodox Catholicism. In fact, some of
Unamuno's works were included in the Index, until the Second Vatican
Council.”
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