The Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936) was the earliest 20th-century thinker to arrive at a perspective on man and the world that can be described as existentialist. The total preoccupation of the philosophy of Miguel de...

Miguel de Unamuno was such an important public figure and intellectual mentor in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century that his fame as a polemical essayist and philosopher overshadowed his poetry during his lifetime, and since his death...

In the following essay, Longhurst argues that readers of Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr will never be able to know the truth about the character Emmanuel because he is never seen directly, but always indirectly through the eyes of Angela.

Carey, Douglas M., and Phillip G. Williams. “Religious Confession as Perspective and Mediation in Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir.” MLN 91, no. 2 (March 1976): 292-310. In the following essay, Carey and Williams perceive confession to be a significant element of Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr.

Glannon, Walter. “Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir: Ethics through Fiction.” MLN 102, no. 2 (March 1987): 316-33. In the following essay, Glannon views the search for meaning to be a central theme in Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr and explores the ethical implications of Emmanuel's actions.