Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno, livre ebook

Unamuno’s Theory of the Novel (London: MHRA/Maney, 2014).Modernismo, noventayochismo y novela. España y Europa (Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2014).Miguel de Unamuno: An Anthology of his Poetry. Translation, Introduction and Notes (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015).Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel: A Comparative Study in Christian Existentialism (London: Palgrave Macmillan: 2021).Pío Baroja: El novelista psicólogo (Granada: Editorial Comares, 2022).The Christian religion figures prominently in the vast output, both discursive and imaginative, of Miguel de Unamuno. Unamuno studied nineteenth-century biblical scholarship closely, especially that of the Liberal Protestant school, but its influence did not dictate his direction. Without fully accepting the traditional Roman Catholic interpretation of the New Testament, what position vis-a-vis Jesus of Nazareth did Unamuno occupy himself? How did he see this figure from the Palestine of two thousand years ago, which has been so influential in western culture? What role does the Nazarene play in Unamuno’s work? What does the presence of Jesus tell us about the Basque writer’s idiosyncratic and combative religious views that drew the opprobrium of the Spanish Church hierarchy? This study focuses on the figure of Jesus of Nazareth as he appears in Unamuno’s writings – including The Tragic Sense of Life, The Christ of Velázquez, The Agony of Christianity, and San Manuel Bueno, mártir.PrefaceList of illustrationsChapter 1: A Quixotic Jesus: From En torno al casticismo to Vida de Don Quijote y SanchoChapter 2: A Tragic Jesus: Del sentimiento trágico de la vidaChapter 3: A Human Jesus: El Cristo de VelázquezChapter 4: An Embattled Jesus: La agonía del cristianismoChapter 5: A People’s Jesus: San Manuel Bueno, mártirChapter 6: A Poetic Jesus: From Poesías to CancioneroChapter 7: Conclusion: Unamuno and JesusEndnotesWorks citedIndex