Madrid, 1939

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

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Este libro trata de mostrar hasta qué punto los autores son necesaria y previamente lectores, hasta qué punto leen de acuerdo con un inconsciente ideológico y estético, y lo hacen como una forma de construir su yo literario, para leerse a sí mismos a partir de los autores leídos, para definirse mediante la tradición lejana o inmediata, incluso para situarse en el sistema o el campo literario del que forman parte, trazando afinidades y diferencias con respecto a los demás habitantes de esa tradición o de ese campo. Escribir presupone saber leer, los autores comienzan por ser lectores; ...