My pregnant wife. My parents – banished from Oviedo after confiscate them their goods-abandoned in Barcelona. Seeing the letter from my father I discovered that he had counted his days. There was no alternative. After agonizing weeks in the concentration camp of Deusto, arrived just in time to bury my father, avoiding the mass grave, and pick up my mother. Qualified pink, he suffered a bitter internal exile.

He devoted himself to private education, to translation for some editorial work and published some literary articles using pseudonyms. On January 30, 1949 – he told us the Granell – I had in hands the chapels of the logic – book that was my hope to jump to America-. Much sooner than expected, exactly the first of October, reached me Madrid a cable from the Central University of Venezuela offering me – spontaneously, for his reasons and without any influence – a position of Professor. Since January 1950 he serves as guest professor at the Faculty of philosophy and letters of the Universidad Central of Venezuela, which would be Professor. In 1959 it acquired Venezuelan citizenship and in 1964 earned a doctorate in philosophy with his thesis the human neighbourhood. He was a co-founder of the society Venezuelan of philosophy and director of the Institute of philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities from 1972 until his retirement in 1977. Among the works of greater relief of the philosopher Manuel Granell, in addition to those mentioned, are: philosophical letters to a woman (1946), aesthetics of Azorin (1949), Ortega and his philosophy (1959), think Venezuelan (1967), Interestphylogenyreferences yexistencia (1977) and integral humanism (1983).

As a poet he published two books of poetry, with the pseudonym of Manuel Cristobal, threshold (1941) and anthology of silence (1981). And as said poet and philosopher Oviedo: genuine philosopher should not fold to another voice than your pillow. Francisco Arias Solis where freedom, dwells there is my country. For peace and freedom and Forum free Internet portal.