Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla [Mist]

J. A. G. Ardila (University of Edinburgh)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford, Stuart Green, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.02: Spanish Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary, 1700-present.
Vol. editors: Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), Isabel Berzal Ayuso (Universidad de Alcala de Henares), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1914

Places

Spain (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Niebla

[Mist] was published in 1914, scholars agree that it must have been drafted in 1907. Very few editorial changes were introduced in the hand-written manuscript kept in the Unamuno Museum of the University of Salamanca. The first page of the manuscript, which bore the date 1907, went missing and no ecdotic analysis has been carried out to determine the exact date.

Mist

is possibly Unamuno’s greatest novel and also the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel, remarkable in its philosophical depth, stylistic virtuosity and highly complex intertextual nature. Its manifold literary innovations set it apart as perhaps the most important Spanish novel of the twentieth century —

Mist

precedes the works of authors like Joyce and Faulkner in its use of stream of consciousness, and…

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Citation: Ardila, J. A. G.. "Niebla". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 December 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11367, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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