![]() ![]() His writing style and structure give a reader the feeling that Unamuno has not so much written this work for someone to read and become convinced, but rather that he imagines himself speaking directly to the reader, and since he can not be there in person, having written down what he would have said had he been able to sit across the table from us. Unamuno addresses these ideas at length, approaching them from different angles, seeming to anticipate objections, alternative proposals or uncertainties the reader might have, and countering them with his carefully reasoned arguments. These essays build on one another, each with a relatively small number of core ideas, perhaps two or three. Unamuno makes his argument over twelve chapters, originally written as a series of essays. To have awareness of these questions, he states, is to have a “tragic sense of life.” ![]() In his book Tragic Sense of Life, the Spanish author and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno gives his clear and unequivocal answer: what gives life meaning is our longing to understand the “wherefore” of our destiny, and our “thirst for eternal life,” which he states is a fundamental desire we all share. What gives life meaning? One of the most fundamental questions we can ask ourselves, and the subject, directly or indirectly, of many shelves worth of fiction and non-fiction. ![]()
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