Parodia and utopia. La sinagoga degli iconoclasti and its precursors
Abstract
Abstract. Georges Bataille pointed up uselesness as the main feature of poetry in opposition to that of productivity bourgois’ notion. Juan Rodolfo Wilcock’s storytelling vindicates lack of productivity as the literature supremacy’s principle and conceives poetic language as delirium, fun, and overindulgence. In his work La sinagoga degli iconoclasti a parodic view of science and a skeptical conception of the world go together being those a consequence of the complex relationship between words and things. Considering the propension to failure as an essential feature of every utopia, this paper analyses the connection between Wilcock’s iconoclastics and his celebrated forerunners to whom Borges dedicated some of his most memorable texts.
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