José Ricardo Morales: el exilio interminable

In this article it is studied the reception of José Ricardo Morales’ legacy taking as point of departure the problematic aspects presented by the traditional historiography models that, from the end of the 19th Century, have identified literature with national identity. Firstly, it is explained which are the deficiencies that the traditional literary historiography presents and how that outlook has configured an exclusive system that subsequently produced a lack of attention to an author like José Ricardo Morales. His legacy represents one of the most important intellectual projects of 19th and 20th Century. Morales is considered as one of the precursors of the so-called ‘theatre of absurd’ although he prefers to use the more appropriate term of ‘theatre of the uncertainty’. In the following lines his legacy is recovered. We analyse the key aspects that have made difficult the integration of his project in the Spanish realm, at the same time we propose different lines of work that could be developed in the future in order to achieve a wider reception of his works.