Mist (novel)

Mist (Spanish: Niebla) is a nivola (a variant form of novel first proposed in the text of Mist itself) written by Miguel de Unamuno in 1907 and first published in 1914. It is often hailed as one of the greatest novels written in Spanish, both by popular critics and by academics. Mist tells the story of Augusto Pérez, a rich young lawyer and a widow's only son, and the romantic and existential problems he lives through as he begins to question the purpose of his everyday life and finally visits Unamuno himself, who tells Augusto he is a fictional entity. It has been the subject of extensive scholarly study, which often focuses on the philosophical and aesthetic ideas Unamuno explores throughout the book. Warner Fite's English translation of Mist, first published in 1928, rendered the full title as Mist: A Tragicomic Novel. The title of the book was alternately rendered as Fog in a translation by Elena Barcia published by Northwestern University Press in 2017.