Peshkov, D. I. Martin Adan: at the Origins of Baroque Concepts in Latin American Culture of the 20th Century

Abstract: The article gives us an insight into one of the first Baroque concepts in Latin American cultural and literary studies introduced by a famous Peruvian modernistic poet Marin Adan. The author tries to analyze this understudied point in the history of Latin American humanities and relates Adan’s ideas to famous Baroque concepts in Latin America of the second half of the 20th century. The author also tries to describe the most important discoveries made by Adan that played an important role in cultural self-identification of Latin America. In the course of his research the author proceeds from particulars to generals and tries to describe the influence of Martin Adan’s work ‘De lo Barocco en el Peru’ (‘Concerning the Baroque in Peru) on the development of Baroque concepts in Latin America. Martin Adam’s ideas are being analyzed in comparison wit other Baroque concepts. Considering the increased interest of modern cultural studies towards the phenomena of Baroque and Neobaroque Adam’s work is growing very important because he was the first one to try to view the key stage of Latin American culture in terms of Baroque esthetics. The author of the present article tries to show the importance of Adan’s ideas for future Baroque concepts in Latin America and demonstrates that Adam’s ideas can be related to the theories of Jose Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier and Irlimar Kyampi.

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