Proyecto existencial, político y estético en "Del cielo y del escombro", de Arturo Serrano Plaja

The short stories collected in Del cielo y del escombro illustrate Serrano Plaja’s change ofheart with regard to the historical events of the Thirties. We studies the political, aesthetic, andexistential trajectory of this author, whose literary purpose it was to create a form of art which wouldeschew both the playfulness of art for art’s sake and the heavy-handedness of propaganda. Thistrajectory, however, culminates in failure, as the project of a redeeming humanism is revealed to beimpossible: ultimately, the stories renounces all kinds of idealization to embrace nihilism, thusprefiguring the themes of Plaja’s poems of exile.