by Miguel de Unamuno · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420602608
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«Abel Sánchez» is the novel by Spanish writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (125 pages, in Spanish).
The novel focuses on the relationship between Joaquín Monegro and Abel, an admired and successful man; the envy and jealousy Joaquín feels towards him end up marking his life. Unamuno reflects on inner conflict, the multiplicity of personality, fame as the perpetuation of one's name, and the search for immortality.
The work was originally published in 1917. This Alianza Editorial edition, in paperback and in Spanish, came out in 2001.
Suitable for literature students and for readers seeking a classic of twentieth-century Spanish narrative.
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".
