Discurso del poder y voluntad de verdad en los artículos políticos anticarlistas de Mariano José de Larra

Abstract

This article analyzes the politicization of Mariano Jose de Larra’s journalistic discourse after the end of the absolutist regime of the Fernando VII and the establishment of constitutional liberalism in Spain in 1833. His support for the new political regime, along with his visible opposition to the Carlist insurrection, can relate Larra to the large group of writers who publicly took part in favor of liberalism during those years. However, the existence of two different groups of anti-Carlist articles will prove how, unlike many other intellectuals of that time, his writings evolved from a clear institutionalization of literary discourse to a much more rebellious stance. What was at first unconditional support to the propaganda sponsored by different liberal governments became a constant criticism towards what Larra considered a tremendous government nonsense. This evolution shows an interesting dialectic between the politicization of the intellectual and the will to truth, a concept defined in M. Foucault’s The Order of Discourse, the analysis of which outlines the intricate aspects of the writer’s personality.