La saga/gran fábula de L. B.

Abstract

Written with humor, a crucial theme in the intellectual career of Luis Beltrán Almería, the purpose of the following pages is twofold: on the one hand, to portray the person honored here, emphasizing his role as an educator, mainly in his early years as a professor of literary theory at the University of Zaragoza; and, on the other hand, to present in a light and pedagogical manner some of the teachings critically elaborated in his writings, in particular La imaginación literaria (2002), a seminal work of Beltrán's theories on the great history of literature.