Les avant-gardes françaises de l’entre-deux-guerres face aux civilisations extra-occidentales

Abstract

Members of the French avant-garde during the 20s and the 30s are not the first writers to be keen on extra-occidental civilisations. But they are the first ones to link this interest to a deep hate for their own civilisation. Therefore they hope that extra-occidental civilisations can provide a solution to Occidental aesthetic and political failure—which appears to be an illusion in the violent context of growing nationalisms.

Keywords

• avant-garde
• surrealism
• Orient
• primitive art
• myth