Sobre Los días terrenales [Zhdánov, Pascal, la filosofía y una “Literatura de extravío”]

Abstract

This article recues the enormous discussion about the novel Los dias terrenales , by Jose Revueltas in the plane of philosophical interpretation. A reading of Los dias terrenales is proposed through the proper instruments of philosophy in its dialectical dimension, through which the significant cast of philosophical problems that Revueltas summons with the construction of a great existential and human mural can be addressed. For this purpose, the ghost of Andrei Zhdanov y Blaise Pascal are invoked: their ideas regarding art, life, the absolute, political or moral commitment and, finally, the human condition guide the complexity of an author in his being both a communist writer and a communist who writes.