Abel Sánchez

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IV. Special Area: Literary Social Criticism

1. Primary Texts: Narrative Prose

Miguel de Unamuno. Abel Sánchez.

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1. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_S%C3%A1nchez
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3. Gomila, Antoni. "Unamuno, Miguel de." The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. : Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference. 2005. Date Accessed 19 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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