Centenary Paper: Rafael Alberti, de la vanguardia como compromiso al compromiso como vanguardia.

More than any other Spanish poet of the twentieth century, Rafael Alberti (1902–1999) embodies what Octavio Paz termed the 'tradition of rupture' to characterize lyrical poetry of his century. Alberti's distinctive pilgrimage through styles will lead to political commitment, from a civic perspective, envisaging himself as a vanguard poet. He will traverse from one style to another and from one tradition to another, becoming a devourer oaf aesthetic forms, and making this nomadism his own avant-garde conception of his work. All the changes, genres and hybridization of his early period are condensed in Sobre los ángeles (1929), in order to ultimately assume that dialectical view of avant-garde as commitment into commitment as avant-garde, a vital literary solution that will accompany him thereafter in his continuous evolutions, and which he will continue to follow stylistically throughout the protean, extensive and intense trajectory of his career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]