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This article revisits the concept of great prose originally proposed by Merleau-Ponty to stress the importance of literary language in the problem of the expression of truth. To achieve this objective, the main theses of the course given by Merleau-Ponty in the 1953-1954 academic year, titled Le problème de la parole, will be discussed. A characterization of literary language and its ability to express the meaning of perception will follow. Finally, the need to incorporate literary expression in the elaboration of a philosophy of the sensible will be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a proposal for the analysis of pragmatic presuppositions which takes into consideration the elements and relationships that allow the determination of their truth and/or convenience in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. This allows demonstrating that the pragmatic presuppositions found in the story "The Call of Cthulhu" generate a mistaken and discriminatory view which is the result of divergent interpretations of what is exotic, unknown and attractive about the topic, as well as ignorance about the culture of the countries which practice it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From where to write when our world is wounded and our literature is sick? This is the question posed by a narrator who estimates that recent Spanish narrative is diagnosed but not healthy. Reality had become one with capitalism, they said, and the following truths to redefine it do not exist. The narrator asks herself whether it is better not to try to have the truth, rather than to be it. This article explores the other that does not exist: the truth, whether it is defeated, crazy or running away. The author presupposes that literature has the precise capacity of imagining a horizon that enables us. In order to achieve it, the challenge, which we don’t know to be impossible, will dissolve into the field of the material, given that the multiple declines of the capital seem to conquer our entire horizon. [TRANSLATION]

This article analyzes the ideological uprooting found in El otro, el mismo, where Borges reminds us of the impossibility of any totalizing discourse (whether philosophical, religious, scientific, etc.) that embraces Reality as a whole. However, Borges also reminds us that in an universe without absolute truths, man cannot escape his individual destiny and is forced to create these truths, to build realities, in order to survive as an individual and as a spicies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a literary criticism of fictional and metaphysical truth in the novel "Soldados de Salamina" by Javier Cercas. It considers the author's exploration of the interface between reality and fiction, discusses his paradoxical use of the referentiality of language and his appeal to metafictional resources.

Starting from a reflection on fiction and reality, this article aims at establishing a relationship between the Intertext and the intention of the one who uses it. This maneuver sets up a dialogue between two literary works, and the revelation of consciousness --that of the author--, who decides to use it in order to reflect reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Plato, Truth has been defined as the adaptation to reality of thought and language: adaequatio intellectus ad rem. In Literature, this condition can be barely achieved, since literary art is essentially fiction and foreign to the classic truth definition. Literature, particularly for that produced in the twentieth century, looked to become estranged from the truth canon. As the distance became greater, the controversy about the literary discourse and truthfulness increased. This study intends to provide a brief approach on the theoretical positions of Käte Hamburger and Roman Ingarden about truth in Literature and its relationship with reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the claim for truth in literature about the existence of the character Dulcinea del Toboso in the book "Don Quijote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Discussion on the literary theory for truth in hermeneutical refiguration.