The proposals of the Marxist literary critic about the relation between the <i>diegetic </i>representation of the literary text and the social reality
The article addresses the relationship between the world represented in the diegesis and the social context from which the literary text emerges from the Marxist perspective. The way in which the various theories of Marxian affiliation wereraised was the age-old problem of literary representation and its connection with social reality. It is a topic of literary criticism approached from the idea of mimesis, seen in Aristotelian terms as the poetic reproduction of reality. It implies the approach of the representational statute of the fiction and the verisimilitude, that is, the appearance of "true" representation that the author pursues and obtains in his literary text. It also addresses how the Marxist theory of art states that the work of art in general and particularly literature have a component considered to be cognitive, since from its perspective art was aimed at showingand even explaining figuratively- the social reality and, in this way, to help the reader understand it through aesthetic intermediation. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that this postulation entails a decisive moral component: art must be morally and politically correct according to the values promoted by Marxism. All the authors studied participate in this perspective, but with notable differences. Our study addresses these great nuances.