Lengua mortal no dice lo que sentía : Giacomo Leopardi a través de sus cartas

The life and thought of Giacomo Leopardi in a single book, for the first time in Spanish, through his letters, his poems, his memoirs, his Zibaldone… For Leopardi, the entire philosophical tradition of the West—including Christianity—stems from the attempt to reject a single certainty: that everything begins, changes, and ends. He was, before Nietzsche, the great thinker of emptiness, of nothingness, of an unnecessary and absurd reality trapped in the endless cycle of birth and death. Things arise from nothing and return to it. Tomorrow we will be neither here nor anywhere else, just as we were not here yesterday; the rest is literature, illusion. And in a world without meaning, without transcendence, the best we can do is feed our illusions to the point of voracity, inventing meaning for ourselves as creators; today, when we can no longer pretend because we don't know, paradoxically and inevitably looking straight ahead at this nothingness. The greatest of all illusions, the most spontaneous and stable, is art: literature, poetry, which "even though it vividly represents the nothingness of things, always serves as consolation, rekindles enthusiasm; and the soul receives life from the same force with which it perceives the perpetual death of things and its own."