SOURCE: Baker, Armand F. “Unamuno and the Religion of Uncertainty.” Hispanic Review 58, no. 1 (winter 1990): 37-56.

In the following essay, Baker explores the themes of faith and uncertainty in Unamuno's works, including Diario íntimio, Del sentimiento trágico de la vida, La agonía de Cristianismo, Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho, and Cristo de Velázquez.

There has rarely been a writer who was more preoccupied with religion than Miguel de Unamuno, since almost everything he wrote can ultimately be related to his efforts to resolve the problem of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. It is often taken for granted that, in spite of his preoccupation with religious matters, most critics think that Unamuno did not believe, or as Vicente Marrero Suárez puts it: “Cada vez se ponen más de acuerdo los estudiosos sobre que Unamuno, en el fondo, no cre...