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What if falling in love makes you question whether you exist at all?
Augusto Pérez has money, idle days, and trouble making even the smallest choice. Then he sees a young woman in the street and follows her. Eugenia Domingo del Arco gives his life a direction, but this proud piano teacher has plans of her own. His wealth cannot simply settle what happens between them.
In Mist, Miguel de Unamuno turns a comic love story into a bold inquiry into freedom, death, and identity. Augusto wonders who really directs his life. His witty friend Víctor Goti, busy writing a novel without a fixed plot, teases him about being a character. The laughter leaves an unsettling question: what makes a self real?
What you’ll discover
- An uncertain first step An umbrella and a moment of hesitation introduce a man unused to choosing.
- A woman with resolve Eugenia refuses to be owned, putting Augusto's desires and use of wealth under pressure.
- Friendship with a sharp edge Víctor Goti brings dry humor to questions that grow harder for Augusto to dismiss.
- A story without fixed rules Unamuno calls his invention a nivola, giving himself room to challenge what a novel does.
- Big doubts in intimate moments Brisk dialogue and inner speech draw you into Augusto's questions about love and existence.
Who will love it
For readers who love ideas inside a story, dry humor and experiments in Spanish literature, with love, identity and the question of who controls a life at their heart.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A rich young man with no purpose
- A glance in the street becomes a quest
- Money, rivals and a woman who will not bend
- Víctor Goti and the novel without a plot
- Who is real, and who decides?
- How the book is told, and why it is odd
Who’s who
- Augusto PérezA rich, idle young orphan who falls in love and then begins to doubt whether he is free or even real.
- Eugenia Domingo del ArcoA proud, independent piano teacher who refuses to be owned and has plans of her own.
- Víctor GotiAugusto's witty friend, who is writing a novel with no fixed plot and likes to tease him about being a character.
- MauricioA charming man without work or seriousness, who attracts Eugenia and stands in Augusto's way.
- RosarioA young working woman whose appearance shows that Augusto's heart is less steady than he thinks.
- OrfeoAugusto's dog, a quiet listener to whom he confides his thoughts.
- Liduvina and DomingoThe cook and manservant who look after Augusto's household and see him as he is.
- Miguel de UnamunoThe author, who enters his own story as a character.
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Niebla
by Miguel de Unamuno · 1914
Augusto Pérez falls in love and begins to wonder whether he is free, whether he is real, and who writes his life.
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Mist is a short novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, published in 1914. Its Spanish title is Niebla.
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A rich young man with no purpose
The story opens with Augusto Pérez stepping out of his front door and hesitating. He puts out his hand to find out whether it is raining, and he cannot decide whether to open his umbrella. This small scene tells you a great deal. Augusto is a man who lets life happen to him, and he does not yet know what he wants.
He is a young orphan with an inheritance. His mother has died, and he lives in comfort, looked after by a cook named Liduvina and her husband Domingo, who serves as his manservant. He has no job and no family to answer to. He studies a little and thinks a little, and he walks the streets of his unnamed city without any goal. His only real companion is his dog Orfeo.
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What is Mist by Unamuno about?
It follows Augusto Pérez, a wealthy and aimless young man who falls in love with a piano teacher and then starts to doubt whether he is free, whether he is real, and who controls his life.
What is a nivola?
Nivola is a word Unamuno invented for this book. He wanted to escape the rules of the realistic novel, so a nivola has little description, much dialogue and thought, and an author who plays openly with the story.
When was Niebla written and published?
Unamuno published Niebla in 1914, in Spain. The story is fiction, not a true account, though it reflects his lifelong worries about identity, death and what makes a person real.
The author
Miguel de Unamuno
1864–1936 · Spanish philosopher, novelist and poet
Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish philosopher, novelist, and essayist, a leading voice of the Generation of '98 and longtime rector of the University of Salamanca. Tragic Sense of Life, his meditation on faith, reason, and mortality, remains his most influential work.
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