Elogio de la infelicidad

This book brings together a series of writings related to each other for the same reason: that of unhappiness. From the origins of Greek literature, along with the misery that surrounds human existence, something essential also appears. The horizon of life, so often full of ignorance and misery, is always illuminated by intelligence and friendship. Both concepts, which shone at the origins of philosophy and poetry, showed the progress towards which, despite hesitations and disappointments, the hope of culture. A culture that depended on an education in words and what those words really meant. A representative selection of the issues that have concerned Emilio Lledó