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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 ultra-productivism of our times, in which history and literature are so often in incommunicable places within small circles.
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Varela, R., della Santa, R. (2023). Raised from the Ground and the Spectre of Revolution. In: Baltrusch, B., Salzani, C., Vanhoutte, K. (eds) A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy. iBroLiT – Estudos Iberorrománicos de Literatura e Tradutoloxía. Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology, vol 9. Frank & Timme, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-8985-0_4
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