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Unamuno and Kierkegaard: Paths to Selfhood in Fiction

Unamuno and Kierkegaard: Paths to Selfhood in Fiction

Evans, Jan E.

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0739110799
ISBN13: 9780739110799
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 6 2005
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.27 Depth: 9.23
Language: English
Miguel de Unamuno was profoundly influenced by S ren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works at a time when Kierkegaard was virtually unknown in Southern Europe. This book explores the scope and character of that influence, clarifies misconceptions in the relationship between the authors, and offers an original, Kierkegaardian reading of three of Unamuno's best known novels: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, and Abel Sánchez. Both authors hold a self as achievement view in which the authentic self is seen as the result of the choices one makes over a lifetime. For Kierkegaard, the spheres of existence-the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious-are stages on life's way to becoming an authentic self before God. Unamuno, however, holds that the same spheres of existence offer equally valid modes of authentic existence as long as one chooses them freely and passionately. This book will be of great interest to scholars of existentialism, Unamuno, and Kierkegaard.

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