Teresa, o la novela de Rafael

Abstract

Among the various collections of poems that Unamuno published, Teresa. Rimas de un poeta desconocido is the one which least ressembles the others. It is not only a collection of individual poems, but it also narrates a history through the pen of a fictitious poet and his 99 poems. This article suggests that in constructing this history Unamuno employs the same techniques we find in his novels, and therefore we can see in the book’s deliberate hybridity a novel in verse, although it remains at the same time a book of poems written by a particular writer, a book which serves to throw a backward glance at Bécquer and other Romantic writers while simultaneously reflecting the wave of experimenting with the novel form which took place in the 1920s.