realism - negative utopia - critical theory - ideology - field (literary, academic) - novel - philosophy of language - postmodernism.

The article analyses the conception of Miguel Espinosa?s (1926-1982) process of writing, his poetics. On the one hand the essay deals briefly with the appropriation of his work by part of the Academy and intellectuals, i. e., how some of the critics and analysts of Espinosa?s work saw it, and, on the other, with Espinosa?s own conception of literature. The article exposes Espinosa?s reflections about what realism in literature meant after Wittgenstein and Heidegger. In this poetics, nevertheless, contradictions surface, for the obsession about nominación clashes with an intention of a strange religious transcendentalism. A short exposition of the logics of ?postmodernism? was inevitable in order to explain Espinosa?s conscious poetics and the unconscious conditions of possibility of the texts.