Desire of death, suicide, and salvation: problems with eternity in Miguel de Unamuno

Abstract

Death has a permanent presence in the work of Miguel de Unamuno, both novelistic and philosophical. His conception of mortality can only be understood from the hunger of eternity and from a search for salvation, that may be contradictory with a rationality that in no way is the specific human attribute. From these coordinates, I intend to develop not only Unamuno’s conception of death but of self-induced death and the desire to die, as well as its relationship with the Catholic dogma that would prevent the salvation of suicides.