Lancelot, 28°-7° by Agustin Espinosa. Island, myth, contemporaneity and humour

Abstract

In this brief study a literary interpretation is made about the cultural transcendence and the deep poetic meaning of the book Lancelot, 28°-7°, by the writer from Tenerife Agustín Espinosa, published in 1929, within the context of the historical Avant-gardes of the Canary Islands. Among other issues, this paper addresses fundamental aspects of its innovative, amusing and transgressive literary aesthetics such as the island, myth, contemporaneity or humour that beats in this literary work, always considering a double commitment of the author with the expressive resources of Modernity and a singular vision of the land, in the form of a new and invented Lanzarote.