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Abel Sánchez: una historia de pasión (1947) Abel Sánchez: A Story of Passion ( Spanish : Abel Sánchez: Una historia de pasión ) is a 1917 novel by Miguel de Unamuno . Abel Sanchez is a re-telling of the story of Cain and Abel set in modern times, which uses the parable to explore themes of envy .
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (/ uː n ə ˈ m uː n oʊ /; Spanish: [miˈɣ̞el ð̞e̞ unaˈmuno i ˈxuɣ̞o]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
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When the novel was published Spain has been enjoying some 20 years of political stability, the first such period in the 19th century. The regime, usually named "Restoration", was monarchy combined with parliamentarian liberal democracy; two key parties were interchanging at power and fundamental flaws of the system – its elitism, corruption and caciquismo – were not clearly visible yet. [4]
Nivola is a term created by Miguel de Unamuno to refer to his works that contrasted with the realism prevalent in Spanish novels during the early 20th century. Since his works were not fully novels, or "novelas" in Spanish, Unamuno coined a new word, "nivolas", to describe them.
Mist (Spanish: Niebla) is a novel written by Miguel de Unamuno in 1907 and first published in 1914 by Editorial Renacimiento. Entitled as Fog. A novel in a translation by Elena Barcia published by Northwestern University Press in 2017.
San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1931) is a short novel by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). It experiments with changes of narrator as well as minimalism of action and of description, and as such has been described as a nivola, a literary genre invented by Unamuno to describe his work.
The main goals of the journey were to find the purported islands of Rica de Oro, Rica de Plata and Armenio (which Unamuno concluded did not exist), [1] and also the profitable transport of Chinese goods to New Spain (which was a violation, like Gali's voyage three years earlier, of the monopoly accorded by the Spanish Crown to the Manila galleons).