Menéndez Pelayo y Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"

The professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona Adolfo Sotelo, addressed the complex and nuanced relationship of friendship, mutual admiration and ideological dissent had Leopoldo Alas Clarín and Menendez Pelayo. Clarín reiterated in relation to the polygraph Santander two constants: the agreement on fighting the excesses of positivism and disagreement in the estimation of radical krausismo. The most important aspect that had in common was the defense of humanism in Spanish culture.