Most of the text is the memoir of the fictional Angela Carballino, a follower and friend of Emmanuel who sees him as a holy man plagued by doubts but fundamentally a believer.
The simple and straightforward plot of "Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr" is complicated by the narrative structure. Through the character Unamuno makes a final though by no means conclusive statement on the basic philosophical, religious, and aesthetic themes introduced in his earlier essays and works of literature. Written in 1930, published in magazine form in 1931, and the title story of a 1933 collection, it is the story of a Catholic priest unable to believe in the afterlife and perhaps even in the existence of God but who nevertheless practices his vocation in an effort to spare his parishioners the anguished knowledge of their mortality and of nothingness beyond the grave. "Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr" ("San Manuel Bueno, Mártir") is one of the most profound and enigmatic fictional texts
SAINT EMMANUEL THE GOOD, MARTYR (San Manuel Bueno, Mártir)
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