"Hay que humanizarse o perecer"

Humanize or perish, Goytisolo's youthful response to Ortega y Gasset's deshumanización del arte.  Yet this return to realism did not entail a collapse back into the gigantic tomes of Galdós or Balzac, but a new attention to what could be experienced through sensory perception.  I find this interesting because of the major chasm constructed between the author's realist work and his experimental work, beginning with the Álvaro Mendiola trilogy.  I am not, of course, prone to draw too many comparison between various markers on Goytisolo's trajectory, but one must always wonder how it might even be considered a trajectory -- if that is the proper word.