Avangarda în slujba Revoluţiei
The Avant-Garde in the Service of the Revolution

Summary/Abstract: If, after Ionesco’s statement, avant-garde could be defined in terms of “opposition and rupture”, it results that the main goal of the avant-garde project is the revolution – perceived not only as a complete renewal of poetic and artistic language, but also – and above all – as a revolt against the establishment of the bourgeois society. Almost all avant-garde movements sympathized with the idea of social revolution in their attempt to liberate man from all social and moral constraints. The Romanian avant-garde had the same purpose, and its evolution followed the same trajectory – from a stage of anarchy to a stage of political engagement in the service of the proletarian revolution –, but the settlement of the “proletarian dictatorship”, in 1947, marked its end, as avant-garde can exist only in opposition to the established system.

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