| Popis: |
Unamuno in San Manuel Bueno, martir has created a fictional intra-historia, the "inner history" of his characters' lives.1 The narrator of the novel, Angela Carballino, in her role as confessor, lays bare her own alma, her "soul," as well as that of her brother Lazaro, but primarily that of Don Manuel, the village priest. The firstperson point of view2 lends itself especially well to the nudity of characterization that Unamuno values so highly. He as author does not strive so much for the realistic presentation of the external event as for the revelation of its internal significance. The process of gradual unfolding of the human self comprises the main dramatic action of the novel. This "unwrapping" of the characters proceeds by stages. At first we are presented with the external realities; internal states are only enigmatically hinted at. The novel opens at this point |
