From Dictatorship to Republic

At N April 1929, twenty-six young writers addressed S t an open letter to Ortega y Gasset, requesting that he serve as their leader in the task of restoring SSpanish politics to a level of decency that it had lost under the Dictatorship of Primo Rivera. Ortega, who was not yet ready to undertake ac1Q tive politics, declined, but Azorin, whose dissatisfaction with the current political situation was growing, was greatly interested in this expression of political conscience from a young group, both because they described themselves as being de generico y resuelto liberalismo' and because they were intellectuals. Azorin hopefully called them los porveniristas and interpreted their manifesto as a significant step in the necessary movement towards a vigorous involvement of Spanish writers, teachers and artists in the social development of their nation. He shared their belief that now, perhaps more than ever before, only those who could be termed intellectuals were able to offer the new

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