Miguel de Unamuno Niebla

 

Supplementary Reading

 

Blanco Aguinaga, C. 1964. ‘Unamuno’s Niebla:  Existence and the Game of Fiction’, Modern Language Notes, 79, 188-205.

 

Elizalde, I. 1983. Miguel de Unamuno y su novelística.  Zarautz:  Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Guipúzcoa.  (Chs. 6 and 8)

 

Gullón, G. 1971. ‘Juego de ficción:  juego de palabras’, Insula, 293, 3-4.

 

Morón-Arroyo, C. 1966. ‘Niebla en la evolución temática de Unamuno’, Modern Language Notes 81, 143-58.

 

Nozick, M. 1982. Miguel de Unamuno:  The Agony of Belief.  Princeton & Guildford:  Princeton University Press.

 

Olson, P. 1984. Unamuno:  Niebla.  London:  Tamesis.

 

Webber, R. 1964. ‘Kierkegaard and the Elaboration of Unamuno’s Niebla’, Hispanic Review, 32, 2, 118-34.

 

Weber, F.W. 1973. ‘Unamuno’s Niebla:  From Novel to Dream’, PMLA, 88, 209-18.

 

Zubarreta A.F. 1960. Unamuno en su nivola.  Madrid:  Taurus.

 

Essay Titles

 

1.            ‘Despite its inoffensive protagonist, Niebla is a novel about power and control, exercised between characters, between author and reader and between author and characters’.  Discuss.

2.         ‘Niebla is a novel of loss, a thematic concern from which we are diverted by a surface text of farcical humour’.  Discuss.

3.         ‘Es muy frecuente que un autor acabe por ser juguete de sus ficciones’.  Discuss with reference to the role of the author as depicted in Niebla.

4.         ‘The female characters of Niebla are merely projections of Augusto, products of his introspective mania’.  Discuss.

5.         “Dicen que lo helénico es distinguir, definir, separar;   pues lo mío es indefinir, confundir.”  How far do these words from the prologue characterize Unamuno’s novelistic practice in Niebla?

6.         ‘The existential heart of Niebla is contained in the first act of Augusto Pérez:  that of stepping out of the house into the street’.  Discuss.

7.         Discuss the importance of TWO of the following for an understanding of Niebla:

            i.   physical life;                  iii.   social life;                     v.   death;

            ii.  literature;                      iv.   fiction.

8.         ‘In Niebla, Unamuno’s intent is not to exalt the role of language, but to belittle, and even to ridicule it’.  Discuss.

9.         ‘The pains of loneliness and the search for solace in love are the main thematic concerns of Niebla’.  Discuss.

 

 

Rosemary Clark