La derrota de/protagonista de la búsqueda. (Unamuno: "Diario íntimo" de 1897)

Abstract

[ES] El Diario de 1897, reconocido testimonio del auténtico esfuerzo de Don Miguel para recuperar la fe católica y de su final fracaso, no parecía contribuir a explicar su definitiva inserción en la cultura cristiana a pesar de su insatisfacción frente a las iglesias y las teologías cristianas, ni su agónica postulación del querer creer. Responsables del descubrimiento de esta autobiografía espiritual y de haber señalado el valor antropológico del "querer creer", proponemos una relectura que, evitando una apresurada tabulación de sus ideas frente a definiciones sistemáticas, atiende a la experiencia humana de Unamuno porque de otro modo no es posible evaluar debidamente las formulaciones nacidas de ésta. Considerados los visibles factores del fracaso, aparece clara la irrecusable autenticidad de la respuesta personal de Unamuno dentro de su circunstancia histórica y, desafiando nuestro presente, aún más allá de ella.

[EN] The Diary of 1897, acknowledged testimony of Don Miguel's authentic effort to recover the Catholic faith and of his final failure, didn't seem to contribute to an explanation of his definitive insertion into Christian culture despite his insatisfaction with Christian churches and theologies, nor of his agonic postulation of the "will to believe". Having been responsible for the discovery of this spiritual autobiography ancl for having underscored the anthropological value of the "will to believe", we advance a re-reading which, by avoiding a hasty tabulation of his ideas alongside systematic definitions, tries to understand his human experience because otherwise it isn't possible to evaluate properly formulations born from that experience. Taken into consideration the apparent factors of the failure, the unquestionable authenticity of Unamuno's personal response looms clearly within his historical circumstances and, challenging our present, even beyond them.