Peshkov Dmitry Igorevitch – Senior Lecturer, Moscow International University, Moscow, Russia; ORCID 0009-0001-8649-2581
The article attempts to relate in a first approximation the concepts of the Renaissance in Spain, the Golden Age of Spanish literature and the phenomenon of Baroque in its various manifestations: from the general European style in art and its specific features in Spanish culture and especially in fiction to its culture-forming functions and ever-expanding influence in the humanitarian sphere of Latin America. In particular, the first Latin American authors who domesticated the Baroque in the New World are considered. The author finds grounds to argue that in the seventeenth century Baroque entered the Americas not only as the art of the conquerors, based on the religious philosophy of the Counter-Reformation and Spanish imperial ideology, but also as the aesthetic and sociocultural basis of mestization and syncretism. The crucial role of the Baroque as a historical style for Latin America, against the background of which a unique synthetic civilization began to take shape, makes it no coincidence that Latin American intellectuals of the twentieth century tried to reveal the continental essence of the Baroque concept.
Baroque; Latin America; synthetic civilization; Golden Age in Spanish literature; Renaissance in Spain.