Open Access“Infamia y vandalismo” (1944), una colaboración significativa de José Revueltas
Author(s) -
José Luis Nogales Baena,
Francisco Javier Sainz Paz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
(an)ecdótica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2683-166X
pISSN - 2683-1635
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.anec.4.2.2020.0005
Subject(s) - nazism , barbarism , communism , ideology , relation (database) , politics , context (archaeology) , humanities , victory , political science , history , law , philosophy , archaeology , database , computer science
This project rescues a brief essay titled “Infamia y vandalismo” by José Revueltas. The text was issued in November 1944 in the main medium of publication of the Mexican-Russian Institute of Cultural Exchange: the journal Cultura Soviética. “Infamia y vandalismo” is a text of political nature, which celebrates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany and illustrates one of the arguments insistently repeated by the Soviet politburo: that communism represented peace and culture, while Nazism promoted destruction and barbarism. The significance of this text relies on the implications that it has in relation to the context of its time (the end of World War II), thus bringing forth a period of Revueltas’s life and of the antifascist and pro-Stalinist left somewhat forgotten nowadays. In other words, this essay can help us to partially reconstruct the intellectual trajectory of the great Mexican writer. The introduction reviews the main elements that should be considered alongside “Infamia y vandalismo” in order to grasp its relevance in the cultural landscape of the moment and in relation to Revueltas’s personal growth: the Institute of Mexican-Russian Cultural Exchange and the journal Cultura Soviética, the atmosphere of ideological confrontation prior to the beginning of the Cold War, as well as the political itinerary of Revueltas in relation to the Mexican Communist Party and other left-wing formations.