![]() ![]() What happens when you break the rules? A fog results. I say that because that’s how these things usually end), and it explains a lot about Niebla. Now, from what I can tell, Unamuno wasn’t the sort of chap to settle for that (clue: he died alone and dejected, which means he spent a life laughing at and resisting human folly. I also know that the circumstances in which he wrote were circumstances in which the publishers seemed to have locked down their idea of what a novel should have and were inclined to exclude anything not fitting their rather rigid definition. So it creates a bit of a fog for me.īut one thing is certain: I know he’s ironical. I have no sphere of reference within Spanish letters and Unamuno is too literate a chap to write without drawing heavily on all he can within a maximum allowable sphere of reference. I’m not sure I completely understand Unamuno. It had been translated into at least 16 languages by the time he got around to writing his final introduction. Niebla is a novel by the sometime rector of the U of Salamanca and glorious anti-rationalist, Miguel de Unamuno. ![]()
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