"The reality of literature is based on our approach to it as readers": Interview with Darío Villanueva

Abstract

In the following interview, Dario Villanueva reviews his academic career and the achievements of his literary thought, after almost half a century of teaching practice and from the perspective of his own career, as a result of his recent retirement. In the dialogue with María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, he discusses issues such as the imprint of his intellectual mentors, including his first teachers at the University of Compostela, the impact of his main academic publications and his future projects, his role in the dissemination of the Theory of Literature in Spain, the institutional dimension of his career, the keys to his intellectual teaching and his defense of comparative studies as an ethic of reading.