Jaume Miravitlles and Marxism: a Twentieth-Century Voyage

This article examines the political career of writer and journalist Jaume Miravitlles i Navarra (Figueres, 1906 Barcelona, 1988). It proposes that the importance of his contributions to intellectual thought and politics deserve reassessment, partly
because Miravitlless political progress was typical of certain left-wing European intellectuals during the period in discussion: of those whose initiation in politics was full-blooded Leninism, but who then progressively distanced themselves from Soviet
ideology and finally became profoundly critical of political Marxism. Miravitlles played a leading role in the Spanish Civil War of 19361939, when he headed the Generalitats Propaganda Commissariat. After 1939, in exile, he became one of the leading narrators of human experience during this period of war and revolution, a role that he reaffirmed on his return to Catalonia in 1963.