La casa propia de Fina Warschaver: en los márgenes de la vanguardia

Abstract

: Aesthetics and politics were intrinsically linked during the emergence of the historical avant-gardes, but the discussion about their goals and interventions remains timely today. The intellectual field that emerged in forties and fifties Argentina, though following a moderate and seldom-disruptive version of the classic avant-garde (Sarlo 1997), did advance complex discussions on social realism and experimental forms linked more to modernism than to surrealism. In this period, Fina Warschaver (1910-1989), a writer with affiliations to Communist Party, published the controversial novel La casa Modesa (1949), which was ignored by critics due to its experimental form and its dis-tance from the social realism promoted by communist ideology. This essay analyzes the strategies that Warschaver borrows from Virginia Woolf’s modernist approach to