The real tragedy of human existence according to the Ligottian aesthetics
Abstract
This article is dedicated to presenting the Ligotti’s bio-bibliographic trajectory, a highly recognized author in the US, in which the main biographical facts and narrative works that have marked his literary production will be noted. In addition, the labels ("Metaphysical", "Philosophical", "Pessimistic", "Nihilistic", among others) that have been given to Ligotti to define his narrative, whose center of study is the misfortune of the human being, will be studied.Therefore, the objective is to find a common minimum denominator of the aforementioned categories, taking the pessimistic philosophy of Peter Wessel Zapffe as the central point within the Ligottian aesthetic.
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