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MARIÁTEGUI’S AVANT-GARDE AND SURREALISM AS DISCIPLINE
Omar Rivera (Southwestern University)
This essay explains Mariátegui’s critical relationship with Breton in terms of his views on Surrealism. In order to understand this rela-tionship, this essay engages in an analysis of (i) Mariátegui’s notion of the avant-garde as a synthesis of aesthetics and politics and of (ii) the positioning of Mariátegui’s avant-garde in relation to post First World War European bourgeoisie and fascism. This interpre-tation of Mariátegui’s reveals a determination of Surrealism as dis-cipline that preserves this movement’s revolutionary task in differ-ent geo- -systematic character of Mariátegui’s writings, this essay also pro-vides a series of concepts that could assist further interpretations of Mariátegui’s aesthetics and politics.
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