TY  - GEN
T1  - The crucified mind : Rafael Alberti and the surrealist ethos in Spain
T2  - Colección Támesis. Monografías ;
A1  - Havard, Robert
LA  - English
PP  - Rochester, NY
PB  - Tamesis
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm54042112
AB  - Alberti is the key in this study of the intense religious element in Spanish avant-garde poetry, art and film of the 1920s and '30s. Why is the Spanish input to Surrealism so distinctive and strong? What do such renowned figures as Dalí, Buñuel, Lorca, Aleixandre and Alberti have in common? This book untangles the issue of Surrealism in Spain by focusing on a consistent feature in Spanish avant-garde poetry, art and film of the late twenties and thirties: its supersaturation in religion. A repressive religious upbringing, typically under the Jesuits, intensifies both the paranoiac and the mystical - Surrealism's twin pillars - which were already deeply ingrained in the Spanish psyche. Striking examples are Lorca's prophetic voice in New York, Dalí and Buñuel's Eucharistic transformations, Alberti's Loyolan materio-mysticism. Alberti is the fulcrum of this study since his poetry goes the full distance of Surrealism's evolution from Freudian catharsis to metaphysical transcendence until it expires in a Marxist reaction to church-bound tradition when his nation convulses in civil war, the surrealist ethos in Spain is not reducible to measuring how closely it imitates French theory. It is 'more serious' than the French, says Alberti, and its bearings are found on a cross of mental suffering and in a journey out of hell that made real art in practice. ROBERT HAVARD is Professor of Spanish, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
OP  - 251
CN  - PQ6601.L2 Z692 2001eb
SN  - 0585490937
SN  - 9780585490939
SN  - 9781846150593
SN  - 1846150590
SN  - 185566075X
SN  - 9781855660755
KW  - Alberti, Rafael, : 1902-1999 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Alberti, Rafael, : 1902-1999
KW  - Religion in literature.
KW  - Surrealism : Spain.
KW  - Religion dans la littérature.
KW  - Surréalisme : Espagne.
KW  - POETRY : Continental European.
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - Spain
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -