Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish
examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in
the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and
drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 1936). In contrast to the
idealist and subconscious tenets espoused by surrealist leader
Andre Breton, which focus on the marvelous, automatic creative
processes, and sublimated depictions of reality, Lorca s surrealist
impulse follows a trajectory more in line with the theories of
French intellectuals such as Georges Bataille (1897 1962), who was
expulsed from Breton s authoritative group. Bataille critiques the
lofty goals and ideals of Bretonian surrealism in the pages of the
cultural and anthropological review Documents (1929 1930) in terms
of a dissident surrealist ethno-poetics. This brand of the surreal
underscores the prevalence of the bleak or darker aspects of
reality: crisis, primitive sacrifice, the death drive, and the
violent representation of existence portrayed through formless base
matter such as blood, excrement, and fragmented bodies. The present
study demonstrates that Bataille s theoretical and poetic
expositions, including those dealing with l informe the formless]
and the somber emptiness of the void, engage the trauma and anxiety
of surrealist expression in Spain, particularly with reference to
the anguish, desire, and death that figure so prominently in
Spanish texts of the 1920s and '30s often qualified as surrealist.
Drawing extensively on the theoretical, cultural, and poetic texts
of the period, Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism offers the
first book-length study to consider Bataille s thinking within the
Spanish context, examined through the work of Lorca, a singular
exponent of what is here referred to as a dissident Spanish
surrealism. By reading Lorca s surrealist texts (including Poeta en
Nueva York, Viaje a la luna, and El publico) through the Bataillean
lens, this volume both amplifies our understanding of the poetry
and drama of one of the most important Spanish writers of the
twentieth century and also expands our perspective of what
surrealism in Spain means."
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