Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

An authoritative English edition of Unamuno’s influential meditation on faith, mortality, and the human condition“The greater part of my work has been to disquiet my neighbors, to stir up the sediment of their hearts, to sore anguish in them, if possible.”—Miguel de UnamunoUnamuno expressed the anguish of modern man in his concept of the Tragic Sense of Life, the continual struggle within the “man of flesh and blood” between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart. Del sentimento trágico, his acknowledged masterpiece, was first published in 1913 and established itself as a classic of modern Spanish literature and a foundational precursor to existentialist thought. This translation captures the raw passion of Unamuno’s original Spanish text, and the extensive notes draw directly from Unamuno’s library at Salamanca, using the books he consulted and annotated in writing The Tragic Sense of Life.