Itinerarium mentis in Monstrum. Saggio su Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
Itinerarium mentis in Monstrum. Essay on Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on the narrative production of the writer Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, analyzed within a critical perspective that finds its thematic center in the notion and figure of the monstrous. Starting from his first collection of short stories – Il caos – up to the last text – Il libro dei mostri – our reflections will not be limited to examining the development of Wilcock’s universe but, after having seen the particular importance that the transversal genre of paradoxography assumes in it, we will use some important studies by Tzvetan Todorov, Georges Canguilhem and Jean-Clet Martin, to examine in detail the three specific processes that govern the declination of the teratological dimension: décorporation, parasitology, vacuum formarum. The reflections on these three notions will therefore allow us to see how the conceptual horizon of the monstrous represents within Wilcock’s writing a transversal hermeneutic pole capable of connecting numerous thematic nuclei that keep returning throughout his rich, multifaceted and heterogeneous production.

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