Abstract

CECILIA, D’Altilia,. Risa y estremecimiento en ¡La pirámide! de Copi. CELEHIS [online]. 2023, n.46, pp.6-6. ISSN 2313-9463.

This work addresses how the grotesque is presented in ¡La Pirámide! by Copi, a theatrical play whose staging was first performed in November 1975 at the Théatre du Palace in Paris. While Copi did not declare an interest in working from the grotesque, certain images of this aesthetic can be read in the play. We agree with Marcos Rosenzvaig's statement in his El teatro de la enfermedad that “Everything leads us to see the incomprehensible, inexplicable, and ridiculous character of the world. That grotesque world is ours and at the same time it is not. It is Copi's world, his aesthetics gathers all the mentioned characteristics [...] In the case of Copi, it makes us laugh and shudder” (2009: 136). The proposal is to analyze the grotesque, understood as the confluence of the comic and the tragic, in ¡La Pirámide! by Copi. The work will be based on the Bakhtinian reflection of the carnivalesque, the corporal low and the degradation of the characters, and from the theoretical considerations of Frances Connelly and Wolfgang Kayser on the grotesque aesthetic.

Keywords : grotesque; theatre; Copi; aesthetics; carnivalesque.

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