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In this article I am going to discuss the importance of the concepts of silence and darkness in the literary works of Juan Benet. With them, this writer tries to invite us to explore what is beyond our agreed reason. He also wants to show us that what we call the irrational can be an unknown logic. According to him, this logic can be important in the future for our intellectual and social progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes sixteen parallelisms between Hopscotch, written by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, and the literary works of the Spanish writer Juan Benet. They are the following: their attacks to an agreed reason, to logic and to science; their questioning of the notion of reality; their distrust of systems and of the insufficiencies of language; their belief in the fact that the center is in the margins; the dialectics between image and sequence of images; a bergsonian duration; a memory distorted by emotions; the absence of coherent plots and their preference for style; their use of oxymoron; that of ecdotics; their pseudoscientific tones; their search of an active reader; the darkness between reason and unreason; the dialectics between reason and passion; their interest for the notion of retraction; and their intertextual drives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]