Antropología y radicalidad literaria. Zola, Warburg, Artaud, Debord, Pasolini

Abstract

The relationship between anthropology and literature has a tradition in anthropological studies, from Lévi-Strauss to James Clifford, through Clifford Geertz. The author raises this relationship through the cultural and political radicalism of five authors: Zola, Warburg, Artaud, Debord and Pasolini. All of them, without being professional anthropologists, had a relationship with the discipline, especially in their approach to social evil. The author leaves the text open, without closing in the manner of Bourdieu, to reflect on exoticism, allegory and fantasy. Always under the condition of writing as an act of power and counter-power. A debate, therefore, that despite its tradition, cannot be considered closed, and that fertilizes literature in times of creative crisis.

Keywords

• anthropology
• literature
• Zola
• Warburg
• Artaud
• Debord