Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno

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A new survey of Unamunos understanding of the fountainhead of Christianity.

Unamunos perception of Christianity, which has a major presence in his work, has proved controversial. This book adopts a new approach by studying what Unamuno has made of the fountainhead of Christianity in six of his works. It examines three major essays, including The Tragic Sense of Life, and three more purely literary works, including the long poem The Christ of Velzquez.

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"Unamuno's God differs whenever he envisions him, and his Jesus is multifaceted - quixotic, tragic, human, embattled, of the people, poetic, and susceptible to cogent synthesis. Balancing depth and breadth, Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno pioneers study of Unamuno's Jesus, omnipresent in its pages."-- "Nelson R. Orringer, professor emeritus of Spanish and comparative literature, University of Connecticut"

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C. A. Longhurst is professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Leeds.