Vanguardia y carnaval: una homología

Abstract

The avant-garde movements in Europe and America meant an intense carnivalization of art and literature. In fact, there exists an interesting homology between the carnivalesque and artistic avant-garde that concerns not only the external and spectacular manifestations of both developments but also their respective contents. The avant-garde writers lived literature as a party and, to a large extent, supported their offensive against bourgeois society on the principles of laughter, assuming the double role of rebels and jesters.