The literary in Amanda Labarca: a philosophical-political project

Abstract

Two literary works of the outstanding Chilean intellectual Amanda Labarca are analyzed from a philosophical and political point of view. The first work, Impressions of Youth, positions Labarca as a critical reader of Spanish-American authors and makes visible her interest in Emilia Pardo Bazán, whose feminism she adheres to. In Unveilings at Dawn, her Nietzscheanism is revealed, through which she demands a kind of resistance to the nihilism produced by war and the absolute relativity of values. Both works allow us to recognize the keys of her new philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century.