Creation, intersubjectivity and the novel: Unamuno on life in Cómo se hace una novela

Abstract

This article shows that, in Miguel de Unamuno, both philosophy and literature contribute to an intellectual project that has to do with life. I will argue that Unamuno, in Cómo se hace una novela, presents a philosophy of life that understands human life as an intersubjective creation. We create life in the same way we do a novel, that is to say, through intersubjective dialectics. Cómo se hace una novela reveals an idea about life in which our ontological potential manifests itself in the novelistic creation and where the text becomes an intersubjective common ground.