Is culture historically guilty?

Abstract

Unlike a deliberale construction of History that thinkers such as Nietzsche or Freud would
designate as "guilty conscience", inserting the literary discomse in the dialectics of history
implies dissipating the ghost of the "naturalization" which thas becn attempted lo forge the recent
idyllic landscape of our Literatnre, Playwriters like Francisco Nieva have tried to lïght the ghost.
so have writers of such different trends as Manuel Talens, Masoliver Ródenas, Sanchis Sinisterra
or J.M Ullán, among others. The article ollers a selective review, within the frame of the so-called
"democracy", that challenges that human feeling of cultural guilt. At the same time, it attemps to
liberate Literature from all lhe historical restraints that have been in runetion over the years (genre
classifïcations, standards, generalions, etc, ) in order to challenge the non-critical aet of reading,
so widely spread in our days.