NIHILISM AND LITERATURE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS IN SPAIN (1918-1936)Author:
HERRERO SENÉS JOAN.
Year:
2005.
University:
POMPEU FABRA [
www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA.
Summary: In this thesis is interpreted through the prism of nihilism conceptual development of Spanish literature between the wars, and the central role of writers in recognition of disorientation of modern man. First analyzed theoretically the concept of nihilism, then gives a description of the context ideológico-estético between the wars, the juncture of the avant-garde literature and the question of jovialidad Art New face of a deep crisis of values. Subsequently diacrónicamente responds to the interrelations of Art in New nihilism, he examines the changing sensibilities of the avant-garde in revolutionary attitude and presents the horizon of various alternatives ideological affecting the writer: liberalism, religious thought and proposals ideological "total "like Fascism and Bolshevism. Finally, it explores the aesthetic ideology of novelist Benjamin Jarnés, whose work exemplifies the evolution of an artistic practice as a means of resistance to nihilism.
