San Manuel Bueno, mártir by Miguel de Unamuno

The physical village and the legendary city serve as symbols of the spiritual and the material.īoth the mountain and lake acquire a human dimension in the character of Don Manuel, evidenced in the quote “ Ya toda ella era don Manuel, don Manuel con el lago y la montaña” ('now everything was don Manuel, don Manuel with the lake and the mountain.') The mountain and lake have also been interpreted as symbolizing powerful faith and superficial faith, respectively, due to the frequent appearance of the mountain's reflection in the lake.

Legend tells that submerged beneath that lake exists a hidden city. The events of the novel occur in Valverde de Lucerna, a small village located on the edge of an idyllic lake. The possibility that they may form a trilogy in three significant parts, or 'partos' (births) as Unamuno suggested in the Prologue to the 1933 edition, has only recently been considered. It was written in a period of two months at the end of 1930 along with two other stories, and was included on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Its plot centers on the life of a parish priest in a small Spanish village. 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. San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1931) is a short novel by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). ( April 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot. It should be expanded to provide more balanced coverage that includes real-world context. This article consists almost entirely of a plot summary.

San Manuel Bueno, mártir by Miguel de Unamuno