The hermeneutic function of the literary work in "Cómo se hace una novela"

Abstract

The purpose of this work is realize of the fecundity that Unamuno’s (1864-1936) thought presents concerning the hermeneutic problem. For it the work will take as a point of item Cómo se hace una novela (1926-7), where Unamuno exposes his ideas concerning the question of the writing and the receipt of the literary work. The study of the work in question and the reference too many of his other works will be crossed by the notions that there was coining Ricoeur of “distancing” and “appropriation” of the world of the text. The importance that takes in Unamuno the receiver of the work, being anticipated to the subsequent theories of the receipt, leads us to seeing what deals this one for “comprehension”, and which is the role that this notion plays in his philosophical - literary conceptions. Finally, from this “distancing” and “appropriation” of the work that Unamuno proposes to the reader will be possible to the receiver, the projection of one world.