The second impotence: Jacques Edwards

Abstract

Jacques Edward´s Metamorfosis shows History as a series of turns and returns. The aristocratic dadaism of the Chilean writer was partially indifferent to the moment. He didn´t want to transgress it (as the sailors involved in the Chibata rebellion or later on, the surrealists). He didn ´t legislate it since he was centered on the figure of the buffoon. (Oswald de Andrade´s palhaço da burguesia). Edwards´s Dada suffers from the dissonances of the time to the point of self-disintegration, and, through miming the epileptic discourse, mimesis becomes a surplus, a mimetic excess.