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Summary: ....Mist....Niebla...Fog....
Review: " Ni los recuerdos ni los suenos son tan efimeros como la NIEBLA"This book deals with human emotions, thoughts and fears in a deep, meaningful and funny way. It has a little bit of everything, private conversations with God, the search for the true meaning of life, the quest to find an everlasting love, the fear of facing death, and the hardships that every single human faces during a lifetime. I read it in Spanish, and I have to say it is one of the best written books I have read so far. Every single word is where it should be, and the story flows magnificently. Im sure that with a good translation this book won't lose its magic in English.
Although it deals with very serious topics, the story is simple, well written, funny, easy to read and with a very unexpected twist at the end... It simply belongs to a class of its own.
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Summary: ....Mist....Niebla...Fog....
Review: " Ni los recuerdos ni los suenos son tan efimeros como la NIEBLA" This book deals with human emotions, thoughts and fears in a deep, meaningful and funny way. It has a little bit of everything, private conversations with God, the search for the true meaning of life, the quest to find an everlasting love, the fear of facing death, and the hardships that every single human faces during a lifetime. I read it in Spanish, and I have to say it is one of the best written books I have read so far. Every single word is where it should be, and the story flows magnificently. Im sure that with a good translation this book won't lose its magic in English.
Although it deals with very serious topics, the story is simple, well written, funny, easy to read and with a very unexpected twist at the end... It simply belongs to a class of its own.
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Summary: Niebla
Review: El existencialismo consiste en muchas creencias sobre la existencia humana. Los existencialists, como Miguel de Unamuno, tienen mas preguntas que respuestas. Unamuno usa el personaje principal, Augusto Perez, para mostrar la pregunta de la existencia, la presencia de un personaje, o la falta de ella. Agusto Perez es un personaje creado por Unamuno como si Unamuno fuera Dios. La pregunta mas profunda es si Unamuno, el creador, puede controlar a Augusto Perez, o si Augusto, el creado, puede ejercer el libre albedrio. No hay ninguna respuesta que puede ser probada. No obstante, Miguel de Unamuno muestra, por la relacion entre autor y personaje, que un hombre puede cesar de existir porque es Dios que lo cree y que lo mata. Si como dicen los existencialists, la meta de la vida es llegar a la vida despues de este mundo, no hay libre albedrio porque siempre es necesario seguir las ordenes de Dios.
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Summary: COOL!
Review: Miguel de Unamuno was definitely ahead of his time. This is a wonderful book, full of great lines you'll be quoting (e.g., "The best mnemonic device is a notebook in your pocket."). The structure of this book is really unique, and the story is so unusual! The main character in the book wants to kill himself and the author won't let him, so the character argues with the author. Very twisted, very mind-bending, very wonderful. The writing is clever, the characters are familiar but I've never met them before, and the style is engaging. I'm off to read more Unamuno!
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Summary: existential masterpiece
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. It's about everything and nothing at the same time. It's a tragic love story, a philosophical quest, and a literary experiment all in one. An existential novel about how to write an existential novel! Unamuno's writing is both very funny and deeply insightful, and at the end, he has you questioning whether or not you yourself are alive. A mind-bending work, and one I have read again and again.
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Summary: existential masterpiece
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. It's about everything and nothing at the same time. It's a tragic love story, a philosophical quest, and a literary experiment all in one. An existential novel about how to write an existential novel! Unamuno's writing is both very funny and deeply insightful, and at the end, he has you questioning whether or not you yourself are alive. A mind-bending work, and one I have read again and again.
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Summary: A Spanish Classic, DO NOT MISS IT!!!
Review: This is the typical novel that when in schooldays, the Teacher order the pupils to read it. And obviously, you do (or you pretend that you do) without paying very much attention on what you read. Sometimes this novel do not appear in the Compulsory Lecture Program, and you escape from it. This is what happened to me...
Later, a friend of yours (in my case it was my partner) recommends you to go over it again, and you discover a Gem.
There are very little things than can be said about the plot, the characters, the language... because I risk to spoil the whole experience of reading it. But I would not avoid saying that Unamuno was one of the most clever writers that ever existed in my country (everyone has heard of him here), and that in "Mist", mostly all things that worries the Human being, such as love, relationships between men and women, marriage, the Meaning of life, the aim of Literature itself... is within its pages, and that is exposed in a very surprising and entertaining way.
As every Masterpiece, it admits many different lectures and points of view, and it might be a very good piece of literature to be discussed in one of those Book Clubs that are so popular in the States.
Trust me: Read it and you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: A Father of Modern Literature
Review: Unamuno starts with a mundane situation to bring the reader into the unique world of abstract ideation and creation. The author uses an utmost and ingeniously sophisticated method to analyze what happens with our creations. Ideas, characters, concepts, art, (even offspring) they are generated and released into the world. They acquire an independent status, become autonomous; they are fully detached from us and our will. In the novel, the author creates a character, Augusto, who falls deeply in love with a woman. His love is not corresponded, therefore the author writes that Augusto will commit suicide. But... Augusto, the character, disagrees with the author since the former wants to live and to love; the idea of suicide never crossed his mind. A heated argument starts between the two of them. Even more, you as reader will be invited to accompany the character to visit the author's house and clear up the issue in person. You will be forced to adopt a position on the matter and decide, at least for yourself, who is right. This is the best existentialist novel I have ever read.
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Summary: how much fun!
Review: With the exception of Nietzsche, never has been philosophy been so much fun! Mist comes across to me as a romping Borges - by this I mean it is full of ideas and creative, as is Borges, but Miguel De Unamuno seems to have the almost girlish exuberance of the Spanish while the Argentinan stays more alof and academic.
Contemporary philosophy normally involves a trained vocabulary and historical understanding, but De Unamuno manages to make this an interesting story and throwing in bones for us to ponder. I often found myself pausing and chewing on my lip, lost in thought. Oh, and how I laughed! At one point the absent minded main character has fallen is asleep and is called to dinner by his servant. Wondering whether the voice was in his head or not he exclaims: "Psychological mysteries!"
It is a shame De Unamuno is not better known.
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