ABEL SÁNCHEZ: A STORY OF PASSION

Considered by critics to be the most bitter and disturbing of Unamuno's works, *ABEL SÁNCHEZ: A STORY OF PASSION* creates a striking modern version of the biblical story of Cain and Abel, in which Joaquín defends history's first murderer. The initial fratricide and envy cease to be a matter of moral judgment, offering the reader a keen and global vision of human experience, as only fiction, in the hands of a master, could achieve. In the author's words: "the envy I tried to portray in Joaquín Monegro's soul is a tragic envy, an envy that defends itself, an envy that could be called angelic."