Abstract

STEDILE LUNA, Verónica. Politics of Creation. The Persistence of Surrealism in the Readings of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, and Georges Bataille. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.1, pp.197-223. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v21n1.74869.

The paper analyzes how surrealism was read at the time when its objectives seemed to be doomed to failure. In different writings, Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot address this issue, within the framework of a series of discussions that, although distanced in time and by the catastrophe of World War II, seem to insist on the same question: whether art is capable of pointing out possible paths for political life. This question can only arise as a result of a displacement: from reading the manifesto to reading the "politics of creation". "Profane illumination" (Benjamin), "absence of community" (Bataille), and "intimate distance" (Blanchot) are the figures that evince the persistence of surrealism in these authors.

Keywords : surrealism; literary theory; politics of creation; profane illumination; absence of community; intimate distance.

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