La regeneración del 27: "Poeta en Nueva York" y "Un chien andalou"

Abstract

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This paper presents a comparative study between Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York and Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s Un chien andalou in order to highlight how the creative vision of these authors transcends the boundaries between different literary movements. Lorca’s collection of poems and Buñuel and Dalí’s film fuse traditional and avant-garde elements as a starting point, thereby creating unique works. I will point out this regenerative perspective by way of analyzing three elements that are repeated throughout these works: first, the images in which violence against the eye or bodily fragmentation take place; second, the recurring presence of different animals and their connection with death, and, finally, the importance of religious imagery in these works. Thus, we can ascertain that these authors, far from breaking with tradition, use it as their creative base as they transform the artistic universe of the xxth century.

Keywords

Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel, Generation of ’27, Surrealism