Open AccessLiteratura y teoría: el apostolado de Desiderio Navarro
Author(s) -
Tatiana Bubnova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
interpretatio. revista de hermenéutica/interpretatio. revista de hermenéutica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2683-1406
pISSN - 2448-864X
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.it.2021.6.1.24864
Subject(s) - proletariat , ideology , selection (genetic algorithm) , indoctrination , variety (cybernetics) , criticism , interpretation (philosophy) , sociology , allusion , literature , epistemology , humanities , philosophy , linguistics , art , law , politics , political science , artificial intelligence , computer science
The purpose of this article is to understand the legacy of Cuban intellectual Desiderio Navarro from his activity as an editor, translator, and cultural promoter. Navarro’s outstanding contributions to literary and cultural theory were enhanced by his foundation of the Criterios Cultural Center, in La Habana, as well as the journal of the same name. His translations from twenty languages added to a widely recognized trajectory as a theorist and critic. His anthology of Russian authors was conceived to represent a variety of theorical perspectives on language, literature, history, and society, from semiotic criticism to ideological indoctrination. This showed the various dimensions of a debate on Stalinism, its critique, and the discourses on proletarian culture during the Soviet era. Navarro’s selection of texts showed the existence of an implicit dialogue, but also made possible a critical and even sarcastic interpretation of its multiple components.