Manuel de Pedrolo: Literature as Intellectual Engagement

Abstract

The article lays out the conceptual bases that Manuel Pedrolo developed –in the form of philosophical literature– in a section of his narrative. I describe the directionality of the author’s intellectual program with regard to the ‘double liberation' in detail. The interest of the work lies in exposing the inherent limitations of ‘literature for literature' –with disregard of human nature– that can also be applied to any international literature, not only written in the fifties and sixties, but in the (ideologically) present time.