The article discusses two press publications by Graciela Figueroa Navarro released in Santiago which are part of critical debates in the early twentieth century literary field. On the one hand, in her short fiction “La Torre” (1921) we can see modernist features that problematize the aristocratic-laden vision of the arielist aesthetics. On the other hand, her posthumous poem “Imprecación del verbo gastado” (1925) deals with the debate between Ancients and Moderns, or the interaction of “new art”, avant-garde, and modernist art. This debate becomes a critical reflection on the ideology of the new in cubist poetry. The symbolic depth of the poem is articulated around paradigmatic cultural references of modernity, the theory of psychoanalysis, the theory of radioactivity, and cubism in plastic arts that promote a sensorium change through discontinuity and fragmentation. The notion of inorganic work (Burger) of cubist poetry, its tendency towards abstraction and geometrism, as well as the loss of reality (Subirats), are questioned as practices of a parasitic aesthetics.
Keywords:
Arielista aesthetic, dialogue modernism-avant-garde, Graciela Figueroa, inorganic work
Vásquez, M. M. (2019). Modernism-Avant-Garde: A new female authorship. Graciela Figueroa Navarro (1899-1925). Revista Chilena De Literatura, (100), pp. 341–362. Retrieved from https://revistaidiem.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/55524
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