Greene and Unamuno: Two Pilgrims to La Mancha: 35 (American University Studies) - Tapa dura

-Graham Greene has acknowledged his intellectual and spiritual debt to Miguel de Unamuno; with admirable insight Professor Jai-Suck Choi explores the depth and breadth of this relationship throughout Greene's works. Greene scholars will be grateful.- (Jane Emery, Stanford University) -(Greene and Unamuno) explains a line of literary indebtedness and inventiveness in a leading (perhaps the leading) English-language novelist of today...students of Spanish literature will find it useful. Dr. Choi writes with grace, clarity, and penetration on an important topic; this winning combination makes his book special.- (Peter Wolfe, University of Missouri)"

This book compares the spiritual perspectives of Miguel de Unamuno as defined in his expository writings with those of Graham Greene as implied in his major fiction. It begins with a comparison between Greene's experiences and both Unamuno's early experiences and the spiritual world portrayed in his three major prose works. Then, as the moral consciousness of the protagonists in Greene's six religious novels, including "Monsignor Quixote, " is analyzed, their moral struggles are compared with those presented in Unamuno's prose works. The book shows that Greene and Unamuno are remarkably alike in the way their minds and emotions function, and that Greene's own hint about Unamuno's influence on himself is critically acceptable. This throws a new light on Greene's fictional world.