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Jesus Maestro - The President, by MA Asturias, Hispanic novel by the State Chief EFO268

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Lesson by Jesús Maestro at the School of Philosophy of Oviedo, Monday, April 18, 2022 https://fgbueno.es/efo/efo268.htm El Señor Presidente, by Miguel Ángel Asturias, and the Hispanic novel of the 'State chief'. Literature and political power Power can only be seduced, defeated or mocked. Throughout its history, literature has engaged in intelligent seduction, in the epic of victory - and failure - or in the most critical and subtle comedy as the main forms of relationship with political power. We do not know how literature will behave in the face of the imminent triumph of unprecedented totalitarian systems that, after the failure of democracy in the Anglo-Saxon and postmodern format - a failure that no one wants or dares to openly recognize - loom ominously over our present. Miguel Ángel Asturias' novel, El Señor Presidente (published in 1946, but written between 1922 and 1933), is a key work in 20th-century literature on the figure of the "state chief" as a totalitarian autocrat, a figure who has determined, since the first of them, Simón Bolívar, the political destiny of Latin America, which, thanks to the excellent work of this "liberator", was left at the mercy of all kinds of foreign powers, mainly the United States, England and France. Today, the People's Republic of China is added to these powers in sharp decline. The critical interpretation of El Señor Presidente, in the literary intertext of the dictator's narrative, genuinely Hispanic, demands asking, among other questions, about the future and the possibilities of literature in a world that seems to everyone less and less democratic and more totalitarian. One of the essential reasons for literature has been, from its earliest origins, the struggle for freedom, in the face of all kinds of irrational, mythological and religious limitations, as well as philosophical and of course political ones, all of them often imposed in the name of a moral idealism – that is, a trade union one – with transcendent pretensions. What will literary rationalism do now to survive, without freedom, and facing unusual political enemies, throughout this 21st century? The Western enemies of literature are not today in religion or philosophy – neither Plato nor Saint Paul are our contemporaries anymore – but in politics, that is, they are both in the State and in postmodern globalization that, in its democratic decline, seeks to replace it. But these adversaries are already irrelevant. The question is different. Today the question is: what will China do with literature? We cannot know yet, but it is very possible that its interpretation of literature depends on its interpretation of Hispanic literature. Our professional activity cannot ignore this reality. We have a date with Chinese Hispanism.

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