The famous utopia imagined by René Etiemble (Comparaison n'est pas raison, 1963: 29) is today even more distant - and perhaps even more absurd - in the times of globalization and of the "transparent society": the radicality of his assumption seems the legacy of a dream of universalism and panlogism now vanished. In spite of what Claudio Guillén had hoped in his introduction of Entre lo uno y lo diverso (1985-2005), comparative literature of recent decades does not seem to have taken the road that history had pointed out.
