The Avant-Gardes To Debate: The Fight Ultraism/ Creationism in the Epistolary Exchange of Huidobro, Diego y Larrea

Abstract

Between 1919 and 1925, Huidobro, Diego and Larrea exchange letters that have a great interest for the internal history of the Hispanic avant-garde and his debates. At the beginning, the two young Spaniards join the broad movement of renewal that supposes the ultraism, but soon they discover in the creationism a more solid and constructive esthetic. So when the controversy of Huidobro with Reverdy arises, Diego and Larrea are loyal to the Chilean and definitely distance themselves from the Ultra group. The cross-correspondence of these three poets provides relevant materials to iluminate new facets of relations between ultraists and creationits, when one hundred years have passed since the second and decisive
arrival of the autor’s Horizon carré to Spain.