by Miguel de Unamuno · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475300788
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«San Manuel Bueno, mártir, y tres historias más» is a short story collection by Miguel de Unamuno, published by Ediciones Orbis in 1982, 170 pages, paperback.
The title story portrays a village priest admired by his community, tormented by religious doubt; it is completed by three stories about love, chess, and life. Unamuno explores faith, reason, and the meaning of existence.
It belongs to number 6 of the Historia de la Literatura Española collection and includes an introduction and reading guide by Víctor García de la Concha.
For those who enjoy Spanish narrative from the first half of the 20th century and the moral dilemmas that run through Unamuno's work.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which The Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".
