L'avant-garde littéraire roumaine et la politique
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Ion Pop
Abstract
Voicing initially a rather general critique of bourgeois culture and society – which was characteristic also of other European vanguard movements such as futurism, Dada, constructivism and surrealism – many militants of the Romanian avant-garde groups moved in the 1930s and 1940s towards an outspoken Marxist engagement, as evinced by the publications of Stephan Roll (pseudonym of Gheorghe Dinu) in the last issues of the review unu. As a result of this engagement, Marxist avant-gardists came to regard the avant-garde itself as a product of a decadent, bourgeois mindset, and called for a “true” aesthetic engagement in proletarian struggles, following the example of the USSR. Signs of an “engagement” may also be discerned in the surrealists Gherasim Luca and Gellu Naum in the 1940s. In line with André Breton they tried to reconcile the surrealist programme with the “total liberation of mankind.” Ironically, however, the Romanian communist regime muzzled the avant-garde: the old avant-garde militants had to submit to the ideological commands of “social realism” or leave their country.
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- Rezensionen
- Inhalt des 41. Bandes (2006)
Articles in the same Issue
- The Avant-Garde and Modern Sovereignty. By Way of Introduction
- Militant Politics and Avant-garde Performance Art in the Early Futurist Movement
- “You Feed Us So that We Can Fight Against You”. Concepts of the Art and State in the Hungarian Avant-Garde
- Reciting Shells. Dada and, Dada in & Dadaists on the First World War
- Dada as Politics
- L'avant-garde littéraire roumaine et la politique
- Mapping Old Traces of the New. Towards a Historical Topography of Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde(s) in the European Cultural Field(s)
- Wiener Gruppe und Transfurismus. Zwei Beispiele für die literaturgeschichtliche Weiterwirkung der historischen Avantgarden im deutschen und russischen Sprachraum
- Schwebe der Körper, Stammeln der Sprache. Strategien literarischer und sexueller Subversion bei Julia Kristeva und Gilles Deleuze
- How to Do Things With Poems Performativity in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy
- Regarding Paintings. Works of El Greco in Simon Vestdijk's Het vijfde zegel
- Istanbul, 1945 Erich Auerbach's Philology of Extremity
- Rezensionen
- Inhalt des 41. Bandes (2006)
