For my final project I read two books: Selected Writings by Jose Marti and Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset. As the last of Marti's writing is in May 1895, Marti's generation is literally the one Ortega y Gasset writes about. A generation of social upheaval, from both the perspectives of both Cuban Marti and Spanish Ortega y Gasset, Ortega y Gasset insinuates that this generation also brings about the genesis of the "mass-man". In what resembles fifteen essays, Ortega y Gasset characterizes the mass-man, his origins, and his rise to social power.
In my paper, I am going to and prove Marti as one of Ortega y Gasset's "liberators of the masses" through both Ortega y Gasset's stated characteristics and the writings of Marti. I also am going to determine whether or not Marti is simply "mass" like those he is trying to free or if he is "noble", again using Ortega y Gasset's characteristics of different types of men.
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Very interesting. What got you interested in Ortega y Gassett? I'm not familiar with this book, but I have worked with his seminal essay on avant-garde poetics- "The Dehumanization of Art" (La deshumanización del arte). In this essay he talks about the shift from a bourgeois realist form of art (Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism) to a more purely aesthetic form, which he saw in modernist (not as much the modernistas)poets like Vallejo, Neruda etc. Ortega was an important mentor for the Spanish Generation of 27 (García Lorca, Salinas, Alberti et al). While you´re writing, be sure to keep in mind that Ortega y Gassett is a Spaniard (not a Latin American) and that his book was published thirty some years after Martí's death.
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