Metaphysics and Novel. Two Pre-Occupations of Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar

Abstract

This text will try to show the points of convergence between philosophy, seen as an understanding of reality, and modern novel, which is inaugurated by Cervantes, as fiction that aims to capture reality, from the analysis of the novel proposed by Antonio R. Huéscar. Such analysis is indebted to the categories of life which he helped establish in his critical essays about the metaphysics of human life as «radical reality», produced by José Ortega y Gasset from the thirties of the last century. Narration is the essential instrument used in metaphysics and novel to capture reality, that is, what happens in the lives of men and women who populate the earth.