A luminous collection of Unamuno’s writings on Christianity and faith

This volume brings together Miguel de Unamuno’s long essay on Christianity as a state of agony—The Agony of Christianity, written in exile in Paris in 1925—with nine essays on related themes, including “Nicodemus the Pharisee,” “Faith,” and “What Is Truth?” Continual protest against the finality of death is the essence of Unamuno’s “agony,” a condition akin to existentialist despair. Refusing both dogmatic certainty and philosophical resignation, he portrays the longing for immortality in the face of doubt as the defining drama of human existence and the wellspring of religious consciousness.