San Manuel Bueno, martir

Description

The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Prepared with non-native Spanish speakers in mind, these editions include an introduction (in Spanish), the complete work, and linguistic and cultural notes in Spanish, a current bibliography and study questions. This Focus student edition is a novella written by Miguel de Unamuno about a village priest whose devotion to his people is challenged while he struggles with religious disillusionment where tradition, existential and religious philosophy converge.

Antonio Sobejano-Moran is professor of Spanish at SUNY-Binghamton University since 1986. He received his baccalaureate degree from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; his masters and doctorate from Michigan State University. He has published extensively on twentieth-century Spanish literature and twentieth-century Spanish theater and has taught language and literature courses at many levels. He has also served as AP table leader in Spanish and Latin American Literature for ETS. Paola Bianco has taught at Wilkes University since 1996 and fluently speaks, reads and writes English, Spanish, Italian and French. Prior to joining Wilkes, Dr. Bianco served as an Intermediate Italian Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the Study Abroad Program Coordinator and Assistant Director at the Lorenzo de' Medici Institute in Florence, Italy, while attaining her PhD. in Romance Languages. She has published books and articles on poetry, literature, Italian culture and Hispanic women writers.