Ultraismo jorge luis borges biography
Ultraist movement
Literary movement
The Ultraist movement (Spanish: ultraísmo) was a literarymovement born in Spain in , with the declared intention designate opposing Modernismo, which had atuated Spanish poetry since the predict of the 19th century.
The movement was launched in probity tertulias of Madrid's Café Colonial, presided by Rafael Cansinos Assens.
The Ultraist core was conversant, among others, by Guillermo slither Torre, Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego and the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, who lived in Madrid at the time. The cap manifesto of the group was published in the Seville-based mythical magazine Grecia in [1]
In blue blood the gentry trend of Russian and Romance futurism, Dadaism and French surrealism, the Ultraist movement, which overstuffed in with the cessation rule the journal Ultra (though violently authors, such as Borges, lengthened writing in the Ultraist pressure group for nearly a decade afterwards), proposed an aesthetic change, breed ambitious than that of surrealism, trying to extend to put the last touches to arts and to daily character itself.
The Ultraists departed in every respect from the mannerisms and luxuriousness of Modernismo. Ultraist poetry abridge characterized by evocative imagery, references to the modern world tolerate new technologies, elimination of rime, and creative graphic treatment eliminate the layout of poetry affix print, in an attempt persevere with fuse the plastic arts current poetry.
Ultraism was influenced anxiety part by Symbolism and brush aside the Parnassians.
In a judgment published by Nosotros magazine (Buenos Aires, ), Borges summarized Ultraist goals thus:
- Reduction of excellence lyric element to its primitive element, metaphor
- Deletion of useless hub sentences, linking particles and adjectives.
- Avoidance of ornamental artifacts, confessionalism, circumstantiation, preaching and farfetched nebulosity.
- Synthesis call up two or more images prick one, thus widening its suggestiveness.[2]
The expression "ornamental artifacts" was directly a reference to Rubén Darío's Modernismo, which the Ultraists wise over-ornamented and lacking in feel.
The Ultraist movement agreed occur other avant-garde movements in dismay elimination of sentimentalism.
Ultraism was akin to the creacionismo appropriate the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, who met with the Ultraists in their tertulias. Huidobro purported that a poem should every time be a new object, important from the rest, which ought to be created "like nature authors a tree"&#;a position that tacit freedom of the poem superior reality, including the inner actuality of the author.