Raised from the Ground and the Spectre of Revolution
Journal: Ibero-Romance studies in literature and translatology
Year: 2023

Karl Marx used to say that one could know much more about the contemporary social situation through a number of literary works than through the study of scientific analyses dealing with the same issue (Lukács 1983). Literature has its own power of comprehending reality. The transcendence of its cognitive discourse—in the face of social and human sciences—is remarkable. And let us remember that the Old Moor did not even live through the era of academic hyper-specialisation or the intellectual ult