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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...rifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy ... ...virtuosity to annihilate by the absurd, after Caragiale’s great lesson of grotesque, have crystallized the recipe of the radical gestures in the the... ...n, the surrealist presentation of the personages (“by that very fact, the grotesque destroys the norms of the common life, and in the case these one... ...rodying of the clichés compose the antinorm as a limit to the discredited grotesque. The anti norm constitutes a drastic warning to the monotonous ex... ...he social and individual life, intends to be a therapeutic literature: the grotesque hyperbole that realizes, the abolition of the evil, with the hel... ...uced. With that are put in evidence the dangers of the relativity. If the grotesque has become a present phenomenological category, why should be cr... ...ical category, why should be created a poetry made to measure? The social grotesque distinguishes itself with the absurd and the ridiculous. The lib... ...e before belonging to literature. If Bacovia, Urmuz, Arghezi ridicule the grotesque modernism and put in question the validity of the traditions, tod... ... more, the artifices of abnormality push the writing toward the farce. The grotesque dissolves the exasperating models, the parody discredits, the ic...

... specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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