Resumen
Este artículo examina las Fábulas futrosóficas o la filosofía de Venus en fábulas (1821), publicadas anónimamente, pero a menudo atribuidas a Leandro Fernández de Moratín. La crítica literaria se ha enfocado principalmente en la autoría de esta obra, ignorando la sátira y la crítica social que contienen estas fábulas. Mantengo que las Fábulas de Moratín representan un texto erudito, que se enfoca en muchos de los mismos problemas que otras obras ilustradas, con frecuencia incorporando elementos neoclásicos. Este ensayo examina dos vertientes retóricas: el uso de la «falacia naturalista», y su crítica de los abusos de poder.
Abstract
This article examines the Fábulas futrosóficas o la filosofía de Venus en fábulas (1821), published anonymously but often attributed to Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Research on this work has largely focused on its authorship, neglecting the rich satire and social commentary contained in these fables. I argue that Moratín’s Fábulas are an erudite text that engages with many of the same issues as other Enlightenment works, often in a neoclassical fashion. This 1 Matthieu P. Raillard is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.). He received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, and his work focuses on Spanish literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. He is the author of articles on erotic poetry, the pseudoerudites and petimetres of the 18th Century, the sublime in Spanish Pre-Romanticism, epic poetry, Romantic satanism, and polyphony in the work of Mariano José de Larra, among others. His work has been published in academic journals such as Dieciocho, Decimonónica, Revista de estudios hispánicos, and L’Erudit Franco-Espagnol.