El mito en la novela vanguardista españolauna mirada oblicua sobre la realidad

Résumé

Classical myths were widely used in the Spanish avant-Garde Novel of the 20s, as evidenced by the titles of major works from this period: "Medusa artificial", by Francisco Ayala (1928), La Venus mecánica, by José Díaz Fernández (1929), the stories “Andrómeda" and "Circe" by Benjamín Jarnés (1929), “La túnica de Neso” by Juan José Domenchina (1929) or Hermes en la vía pública (1934). by Antonio de Obregón. This return to myth is very likely due to the theories proposed by Ortega y Gasset in his “Meditations on Quixote”. In this essay he presents myth as the core of literature. arguing that the realism of the contemporary novel approaches it from an oblique and critical point of view. The article shows how this process of subversion appears in the Avant-Garde novels mentioned: The relationship of classical Antiquity to the present, the shifting of the search for causes to science, the tension between idealism and materialism. the comic tone to deny tragic destiny.