Probably, the best pages of this autobiographical essay are those where Fernando Savater talks about love and loss. But the ones that have resonated the most are those where he describes his political transition and his renunciation of the left. “I have always considered myself a left-wing person,” he writes, although he stayed away from communism. For some time he identified with anarchism and above all he felt part of the project of the newspaper El País, close to the socialism of Felipe González, in...