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La novela narra la situación de Augusto Pérez, un joven rico licenciado en Derecho. Hijo único de Madre viuda, a la muerte de su madre no halla qué hacer con su vida hasta que un día, paseando sin rumbo, conoce a una guapa joven pianista, Eugenia Domingo del Arco de la que se enamora o cree enamorarse y cuya amistad trata de conseguir, cosa que efectivamente logra. Conoce a la familia de ella, que es también huérfana y vive con sus tíos, don Fermín, un “anarquista místico”, y doña Hermelinda. Su cortejo es al comienzo rechazado por Eugenia, quien aclara a Augusto que ella ya tiene un novio, llamado Mauricio. Ante la respuesta de Eugenia, Augusto entabla una relación amorosa con una de sus sirvientas ocasionales, la señorita que le planchaba, Rosario. Después de algunas peripecias, Eugenia, movida, al parecer, por los celos, el instinto de competencia, y un quiebre con Mauricio, decide aceptar a Augusto como novio y futuro esposo.
LanguageEspañol
Release dateApr 13, 2020
ISBN9788492793679
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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel De Unamuno (1864 - 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Audiolibro muy puntual, excelente opción para elegir. Voz clara y fuerte.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    La historia de Augusto y Eugenia es sólo el pretexto perfecto para llevar al lector por una introspección deliciosa y llena de análisis filosóficos.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Me gusto, todo iba fluyendo a pesar de que los personajes no tienen rumbo ni decisiones claras, lo que mas puedo destacar es el final porque se me hizo lindo, todo lo que pasa poco antes estuvo un tanto innecesario para mi gusto.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Buena narración, en español castizo, y si hay un libro para escuchar así es esta maravillosa invención literaria de Unamuno.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Increíblemente bien leído, y me sorprendió enormemente el libro, jamás me había cruzado con una narrativa tan particular, es el primer libro que escucho de Don Miguel de Unamuno, y realmente me dejó helado. Totalmente recomendado.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Una saludable costumbre, que recomiendo a todos los amantes de la literatura, es recurrir, cada tanto, a los clásicos, en este caso, a Miguel de Unamuno, que nos ofrece, en Niebla, mucho más que una simple novela, o "nivola" como aprendemos a llamarla desde el inicio. "Esta ocurrencia de llamarle nivola ––ocurrencia que en rigor no es mía, como lo cuento en el texto–– fue otra ingenua zorrería para intrigar a los críticos. Novela y tan novela como cualquiera otra que así sea. Es decir, que así se llame, pues aquí ser es llamarse."
    Con un lenguaje cargado de ironía, con mucha "musicalidad". pleno de imágenes, y de juego de palabras , Niebla nos cuenta las desventuras amorosas de Augusto Pérez, personaje melancólico e introvertido, que, tras conocer a una joven mujer, de la que se enamora ,deambula distraído por las calles sumido en la confusión de sus pensamientos, esa "niebla" a la que alude el título, lo que lo lleva a largos soliloquios en los que debate consigo mismo - o con su perro - , sus posibles formas de proceder, para salir de los cuales, también se somete a la opinión de su amigo Víctor, - que también, a pedido del autor, actúa como prologuista de la nivola - ,de sus criados, y del propio Miguel de Unamuno.
    Y aquí nos encontramos con uno de los ejes presentes en Niebla: el autor, rompiendo con los cánones de la novela tradicional, se introduce en la misma, - siempre desde un rol de demiurgo - , y discute con los personajes a los que da vida, quienes, por su parte, no se resignan a ser meros juguetes de su creador, y proclaman su derecho a tener vida y opiniones propias.
    Además de la historia de Augusto, que desde el principio sabemos trágica, y de otras historias que introduce como pequeños relatos dentro del relato, Unamuno arremete, ya sea en su propia voz, o la de los otros protagonistas, contra muchos de los temas vigentes en esa España de principios del siglo XX. Así salen a relucir cuestiones como el anarquismo, el feminismo y el rol de las mujeres, las convenciones sociales, el matrimonio, la paternidad, la psicología, las ciencias experimentales, visiones propias del existencialismo sobre la vida y la muerte, el rol de filósofos, críticos y pensadores, y, como hemos mencionado, la construcción literaria, la forma de escribir, la relación entre la realidad y la ficción y entre el autor y los personajes. No falta un célebre alegato nacionalista.
    En definitiva una gran pieza literaria de uno de los grandes referentes de la Generación del 98, y de la literatura española en general, cuya lectura, desde ya, recomendamos.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In his introduction to this English edition of Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla (“Mist” or, as in Elena Barcia’s new translation – “Fog”), Alberto Manguel makes a bold claim for the novel. Critics, he tells us, have almost unanimously placed it amongst the great Modernist texts, next to Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Pirandello’s Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. Except that Unamuno’s novel precedes them both, having been published in 1914 and commenced years before. Now I have a confession to make. Although a fan of Italian literature, I have never read Luigi Pirandello, mainly because I have always been afraid that my tastes are too traditional to appreciate this experimental master. As for The Waves – I did read the novel over twenty years ago, but that was only because it was lent to me by a girl I fancied. And if the rocker Meat Loaf sang that he “would do anything for Love”, I guessed that having a go at Woolf was no big deal. Alas, The Waves washed over me without leaving any long-lasting ripples and I’ve never felt any inclination to tackle Woolf since then. It was therefore with some trepidation that I approached Unamuno’s book. I needn’t have worried, as the novel turned out to be really fun to read. And by “fun” I do not simply mean that it is “interesting” and “intellectually satisfying” (although it is that is well) but it is also seriously entertaining. As in any self-respecting Modernist novel, the plot is secondary, if not inexistent. Bored bachelor Augusto Pérez has lost his doting mother who, before passing on, insists that he find himself a wife. It takes the gaze of piano-teacher Eugenia to finally awake Augusto’s passions. There is a problem though - the wilful Eugenia is not particularly drawn to Augusto. Apart from the fact that she already has a fiancé. Moreover, thanks to Eugenia, Augusto’s eyes are finally open to the charms of women in general, and the ones who surround him in particular. Meaning that he is soon embroiled in a nascent affair with the earthier Rosario, the young woman who does his laundry. In between Augusto’s hapless attempts at lovemaking, he indulges in philosophical discussions and meta-fictional discourses with the other characters, which culminate in a showdown with the Author himself. Add a prologue purportedly written by one of Unamuno’s fictional characters, a “postprologue” by the author, and an epilogue by Augusto’s dog, and you have the makings of a Modernist text, a work which challenges preconceptions about the role of the author, his characters and his readers. What is surprising is that even at his most abstruse, Unamuno retains a light and comic touch. Indeed, when not exploding novelistic conventions to smithereens, he indulges in a type of comedy which reminds me of early Evelyn Waugh. I particularly enjoyed the scenes involving Eugenia’s uncle - a self-declared “theoretical, mystical anarchist” who believes that Esperanto will bring about world peace. I sincerely hope that Elena Barcia’s translation will bring this novel to the attention of a wider English-speaking (and reading) public. It deserves to be known not only for its literary-historical merits, but also – and perhaps more importantly – because it is such a great read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have read some heavy handed pseudo-philosophy novels recently [The Elegance of the Hedgehog] immediately springs to mind and so it was a joy to read Unamuno’s Mist, which refuses to take itself too seriously although it deals with issues such as the insecurity of modern man and existential existence. Published in 1914 and translated from the Spanish by Marciano Guerre as recently as 2013 it starts by telling the simple story of Augusto Perez: a well to do young man who has recently lost his mother. He is out for his morning constitutional and for no particular reason finds himself following a young woman back to her house. He makes enquiries through the concierge and finds out that the young woman (Eugenia) is a piano teacher, he soon fancies himself as a suitor and makes more polite enquiries. Augusto lives alone with his two servants and a foundling dog and is vaguely seeking some direction to his life. He has monologues mainly addressed to his dog, has conversations with his servants and a couple of friends on the subject of women (whom he has only recently discovered) and finds himself chatting up his laundry maid Rosario. Eugenia rejects his suite as she is in love with the lazy out of work Mauricio, but when she learns about Rosario she feels slighted and sets out to win back Augusto.The reader is alerted by the Prologue written by Victor Goti (who is a character in the novel) that all is not as it seems. A post prologue written by Unamuno questions the existence of Señor Goti and takes him to task about questioning the fate of Augusto. Goti has hinted in his prologue that Unamuno delights in playing tricks with metaphysical concepts and has been criticised for producing material that is for jesting and romping. It soon becomes clear that this is exactly what Unamuno is doing with Mist. There is irony and there is satire all encompassed in the story of Augusto’s love life which is a mystery to him and for which he seeks answers, but they all gets lost in the mist/fog of love. That may well be because of the characters that Augusto seeks out: for example the author and philosopher Paparrigopulos who is writing a book on a study of Spanish women maintaining that he only needs to study one. Paparrigopulos is also writing a book on forgotten Spanish authors who have had work published and is about to write a further book of that third class of authors; those who having thought of writing, had never got to the point of doing so. Never trust yourself to a surgeon who has not amputated a limb of his ownDon’t take a woman to Paris; that is like taking codfish to Scotlandmatrimony is an experiment …. a psychological experiment; paternity is also an experiment but … pathologicalThese are some of the nuggets of wisdom an ever more confused Augusto is given as he tries to make up his mind whether to pursue Eugenia or Rosario, of course he never really has that choice.Half way into the book, Victor reveals that he is writing a novel which he calls a nivola and tells Augusto what he is doing. He says he is writing a novel just as we live and so he doesn’t know where it is going. He is asked if there is any psychology in it and he sidesteps this by saying that it will consist mainly of dialogue, because people like conversation even when it says nothing. He may be guiding his characters but at the end of the day they may well be guiding him “It often happens that an author ends by being the plaything of his own inventions” Umanuno then interjects himself to say:“While Augusto and Victor were carrying on this ‘nivolistic' conversation, I the author of this nivola which you my dear readers are holding in your hand and reading, I was smiling enigmatically seeing my nivolistic characters advocating my case and justifying my methods of procedure. And I said to myself “Think how far these poor fellows are from suspecting that they are only trying to justify what I am doing with them! In the same fashion, whenever a man is seeking for reasons wherewith to justify himself, he is, strictly speaking, only seeking to justify God, and I am God of these two poor novelistic devils”As a piece of Meta-fiction this book is taken right up to the denouement when Augusto travels to Salamanca to meet the author Unamuno to ague about his right to commit suicide. Unamuno will have none of it explaining that Augusto does not really exist. And so from a simple story of Augusto looking for a wife the reader is gently led down a path that becomes more weird, but the signs have been there from the start and the ride along the way if full of fun moments. I was soon entranced by this Novel/nivola’s unique atmosphere and so 4.5 stars.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Originally published in 1914, this is Unamuno's best-known work of fiction. It's very much a novel written by a philosophy professor, where the characters are constantly breaking off the action to discuss the fundamental problems of human existence, but it's presented in a very playful and entertaining way. The ostensible storyline is a rather silly romantic comedy full of rival suitors, servants, scheming aunts and misunderstandings: it could a P.G. Wodehouse story, but it also has an Enlightenment flavour that would go well with Beaumarchais, Diderot, or Sterne (in fact, it would have been perfect for the plot of a Mozart/Da Ponte opera). However, the Bertie Wooster/Almaviva protagonist, Augusto, is not a romantic buffoon, but a tragic existentialist hero after the manner of Meursault, who is ultimately destroyed by his inability to find convincing evidence of his own existence. There is also a metatextual element, with not one but two putative authors jumping in and out of the story and arguing about whether it is a novel or something quite different, a nivola. It sounds like a mess, but Unamuno has both the charm and the intellectual strength of purpose to get away with it, and I think it would be quite readable even for someone who doesn't really care for philosophy.