Dolores Franco de Marías Una vida desde la razón vital femenina-Nieves Gómez Álvarez

by Christine Marlet | Apr 18, 2021

Writer, translator and teacher from Madrid, Dolores Franco de Marías (1912-1977) is best known for having been the most important woman in the life of the philosopher Julián Marías. But while it is true that she was the wife of one of the most outstanding Spanish thinkers of the 20th century and the mother of four children currently involved in Spanish cultural life, this paper would like to highlight her own intellectual value and the extent to which she can also be considered a disciple of José Ortega y Gasset and Pedro Salinas in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
Undoubtedly, her great talents were to make possible a “polished and perfect love” (a very complex art) and to lead a difficult but authentic Spanish life, from a full feminine vital reason, open to the masculine one, in connection with it.