Information about the author:
Anastasia V. Golubtsova
Anastasia V. Golubtsova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-7707
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Abstract:
The article deals with the controversy that has unfolded in “Group 63” circles around the relationship between the Neo-Avant-Garde and tradition. It considers the materials from two congresses of the group (in 1963 and 1965), articles included in the first collection of Italian Neo-Avant-Garde poetry Novissimi (1961), theoretical works written by the members of “Group 63” (L. Anceschi, U. Eco, E. Sanguineti, G. Manganelli) and other critics close to Neo-Avant-Garde circles. Most of the texts under consideration have not been translated into Russian and are being introduced for the first time. The article analyzes the concept of “tra- dition of innovation”, developed in the course of Neo-Avant-Garde discussions, and examines the relationship of Neo-Avant-Garde with the historical Avant-Garde, Modernism, Baroque, as well as with experimental literary movements close in time (in particular, with the “New Novel”). It is concluded that the narrative techniques, motifs and images developed or made relevant by the “Group 63” are adopted by Italian literary Postmodernism and transformed into a new norm, becoming part of the “tradition of innovation.”
Keywords: “Group 63”, Neo-Avant-Garde, Avant-Garde, Modernism, Baroque literature, tradition, experimentalism.
