![]() ![]() ![]() Mainer states the obvious when he theorizes that the crux of the novel "pudo ser la histora patetica de una tia real, conocida por el autor. To this list one critic has argued for the inclusion of Tolstoi's 1889 narrative, The Kreutzer Sonata, which created characters and an anti-sensualist discourse similar to those censured in Unamuno's novel (Franz, "La tia Tula y La sonata de Kreutzer" 143-61). These allegedly consciously-conceived intertexts include the life of Santa Teresa de Jesus Don Quijote a brief segment from the Bible (1 Kings 1: 1-2) that Unamuno also used in La agonia del cristianismo and Sophocles's Antigone (Caballe 33-34 Franz, "La tia Tula y el critianismo" 45-48). ![]() The intertexts that have been suggested for La tia Tula (1921) are many, and most take root in details of the prologue that Unamuno appended to the novel in an attempt to explain the enigmatic character of its protagonist, Gertrudis. ![]()
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