Abstract

DA RE, ESTEBAN. Los Pensadores and the Humor for the Criticism of Literature, Art and Society. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2023, vol.14, n.28, pp.13-34.  Epub Jan 18, 2023. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifras¡s202314.28.01.

Regarding the thoroughly discussed polemics between the Boedo and the Florida groups that took place in cultural magazines in the mid 20s, literary critique supports the idea that its display involved a certain distribution of serious and humoristic tones within argentine literary language, which would correspond, in turn, to the classical division between form and content. Whereas the "social art" by Boedo would have focused in seriously toned denunciation, grounded in the seriousness of the problems it addressed, the "art for art's sake" defended by Florida, would have found in humour a way for literature to reflect about itself and to produce its criticism and self-criticism. However, a re-reading of Los Pensadores, the journal around which the Boedo group organized itself, suggests that a humoristic tone was one of its fundamental strategies for the criticism of the literature and the society of its time, in synch with its literary, cultural and political project.

Keywords : cultural journals; humor; left; social art; Boedo; polemics; avant-garde; Florida.

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