ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM DIALECTICS IN EL ROBINSON URBANO'S ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA JOURNALISTIC ARTICLES

• Published in: SEECI 2000 2021-01 (54), p.55-77
• Main Author: Rico, Manuel Ruiz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Collaboration; Democracy; Ideology; Journalism; Local elections; Morality; Romantic period; Spanish language; Writers
• ISSN: 1575-9628; 1576-3420
• DOI: 10.15198/seeci.2021.54.e632

Translation by Paula González (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela) 1.INTRODUCTION El Robinson Urbano's article collection, of Antonio Muñoz Molina, was published for the first time in 1984 in Granada by the Selene publishing house in a desktop publishing of its author, who at that time was an officer of the City Council's Culture Delegation. With two exceptions 1, the articles included in the said volume of El Robinson Urbano had been published between Friday, May 7th, 1982 (the second number that the newspaper put out on the street) and Friday, April 8th, 1983 in the Diario de Granada and under the same heading: [...]the signature, the name of Antonio Muñoz Molina, was born for the Spanish letters the next day, in the pages of a newspaper, with the first article of El Robinson Urbano series, in the second issue of Diario de Granada, a newspaper of progressive ideology that had been born for the new Granada of the recovered democracy in those years of the Spanish Transition. Muñoz Molina is embedded in the generation just before, that new batch of authors that had connected with a new audience in the first stage of openness, democracy, and freedom unknown for four decades.