Valparaíso avant-garde: expressionism of/in the periphery

Abstract

This article is a revision on the avant-garde literary production in Valparaiso, in the first half of the twentieth century. We propose that in Valparaiso, in contrast to the metropolitan avant-garde that favored the teaching of Huidobro's creationism, was developed -under the peculiarities of local space- an expressionist avant-garde, which has been rarely seen in the history of national literature. We argue that this distinguishing feature was stimulated by the presence of Hungarian activist Zsigmond Remenyik and the texts of his authorship included in Las tres tragedias del lamparero alucinado since also for Julio Walton's El aullido de las rameras, both written in Valparaiso in 1922.