The Ease of a Guilty Conscience or a Cleaning of the Past? A Study of Laín Entralgo’s Autobiography

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Manuela SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA

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Pedro Laín Entralgo published his autobiography Descargo de conciencia in April of 1976. This article, that applies Loureiro’s autobiographical conception as an act at once discursive, intertextual, rhetorical, ethical and political, aims to demonstrate that, in addition to easing his conscience, Laín Entralgo tried to justify his past, clean it and make it presentable in order to continue being an intellectual and political figure in the Transition to democracy that was beginning then. For that purpose, he used accurate rhetorical strategies to present everything organized for the reader. On the other hand, the ambiguity of the book has involved two different readings: the one at the publication time and a second one from the turning of the millennium until now (Isaac Rosa, Gregorio Morán...).

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SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA, M. “The Ease of a Guilty Conscience or a Cleaning of the Past? A Study of Laín Entralgo’s Autobiography”. Creneida. Journal of Hispanic Literatures, no. 3, Nov. 2015, pp. 350-73, doi:10.21071/calh.v3i.5310.
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